Mo' Money

Plot synopsis:
Ted Forrest who works for the Dynasty Card Company is murdered by Keith Heading (Diehl) and his men on the street, they switch the tape before police arrive. Johnny Stewart (Wayans) is a lifelong con-man who meets a girl, Amber Evans (Dash), and tries to impress her by cleaning up his act and doing things the honest way. He becomes a mailroom clerk at the credit card firm where she works and soon finds that he needs money to impress Amber. So, he develops a scheme to commit identity theft (though this term was not used for the crime in 1992) with the credit card information of deceased cardholders to which he has access due to his mailroom position. He justifies his actions because he knows that he is only stealing from the company and not harming the individual cardholders. Chris Fields trains Johnny how to do the job,until Keith threatens Chris in the men's restroom making him feel scared. Lt Walsh asks Chris questions about Keith,Chris is stabbed and killed by Keith's hitman in the subway station. Lt Walsh investigates Chris's murder and find credit card receipts on him. Keith promotes Johnny from mailroom clerk to supervisor to replace Chris who was killed.
With the help of his brother and fellow conman Seymour (Wayans), he charges large amounts of money to the cards with the intention of impressing Amber. The supervisor, Keith Heading (who is responsible for a virtual stolen credit card empire), records Johnny stealing a returned credit card and cons him into joining his credit card ring. Seymour takes the stolen credit card trying to buy a four fingered ring, but a security alarm came on saying card stolen. Seymour tries to escape but is caught by mall security and questioned by police. The police authorized a sting operation on Seymour to tape Keith's conversation and to capture him. Lt Walsh becomes furious about the sting operation. Keith's hitman is trying to kill Johnny for blackmail until he shoots Walsh in the arm. Keith kidnaps Seymour and Johnny goes after him until he escapes. Keith tries to kill Johnny by shooting him in the shoulder. A fight ensues between them until Johnny kills him and hangs him. Seymour and Amber visit Johnny lying in the hospital bed injured and decides to settle down.

Tags: murder

Review:
Motivated by my other weeks viewing of The Last Boy Scout (8 out of 10), I decided to follow up with another Damon Wayans film, this one directed by Peter MacDonald, the same man who did Rambo III of all films (quite a genre leap!).
It is basically a middle of the road Romantic-Action-Comedy date film, the type that were churned out by the truckload during the early 1990's.
R rated, so it dates this film a little bit, as the romantic-action-comedy genre is almost 100% exclusively a PG-13 genre for at least the last 10 years.
The film stars a moderately funny Damon Wayans (not his best) as a street wise guy trying to get 'mo money' by applying for a minimum wage desk job, as well as snag a girl.
The film also co-stars his annoying, goofy and much less funny younger brother Marlon Wayans (who always reminds me of a C-list celebrity in the Eddie Griffin style).
The movie was written by Damon Wayans though, which is worth noting.
This is an average film at best, not unenjoyable, but certainly forgettable save for a couple funny scenes (very much in an In Living Color skit-com style).
Every date movie cliché is here too, including the up-tight boyfriend, the fat and lovable comic relief, and the crime-caper sub-plot.
I think it's funny and has a certain charm to it (thanks to incredible Stacey Dash and Damon Wayans).
The movie is a bit like a fairy tale(again thanks to Stacey Dash) but that gives it a lot of charm and I always enjoy watching it.
The movie is so enjoyable to watch because it has a bit of everything in it-action, comedy, romance and of course with the Wayans brothers you are sure to have good time!
I liked seeing Damon's softer side towards Stacy Dash, and Marlon's jealousy towards his brother's relationship with this girl.
Overall,it is a great movie to watch, especially if you are a fan of the Wayans family, plus it has a wicked soundtrack as well!.
Personally i Truly found this movie funny.After a string of small time scams, Johnny Stewart(Damon Wayans), finally decides to go legit when he meets the women of his dreams(Stacy Dash).
But the temptation of free money- in the form of returned credit cards- is more temptation then he can resist, and soon he and his little brother(Marlon Wayans)are on the hilarious shopping spree of a lifetime.
When a corrupt executive discovers what Johnny is doing, he blackmails him into a dangerous fraud scheme that threatens not only his credit rating , but his life.In my opinion i would give this movie 7/10 stars Not that bad but it could of been better.
Although thin on plot, great performances by the leads do manage to save what would otherwise be another mediocre comedy.
Damon Wayans shows considerable charisma as the lead, and has terrific chemistry with beautiful co-star Stacey Dash.
Brothers Johnny Stewart (Damon Wayans) and Seymour Stewart (Marlon Wayans) are petty criminal scammers in Chicago which usually requires Johnny to do a weird voice.
Johnny falls for Amber Evans (Stacey Dash) and gets a mailroom job at her office for a credit card firm.
Police Lt. Walsh is investigating a murder perpetrated by the murderous conspirators.While Damon is cringey, it is Stacey Dash who is more annoying.
Damon Wayans first attempt at writing a movie script was a total failure.
Mo' Money was almost an extended In Living Color script; even the name of the movie came from an In Living Color sketch.
Johnny (Damon Wayans) was a starving street hustler on probation.
One small time hustle after another caused his path to cross with that of Amber Evans (Stacey Dash).
In his pursuit of the hot chick of the movie he ended up getting a job where she worked.
There was a lot of hamming it up from both Damon and Marlon with very little good content.
This was a love story at the end of the day and many of them are nothing more than fantasies on film and Mo' Money was no different..
average comedy attempt from the wayans'.
the wayans have a certain charm that make their movies watchable but repeated viewings- now way.
stacy dash is gorgeous and damon has got charisma but the plot is just a slap dash took-someone-five-minutes-to-think-up job that almost drags the picture down to crapsville but the wayans' acting is decent enough to make u watch to the end.
This is by far one of the worst movies I've ever paid money to see.
I can never get the 2 hours lost watching this movie.
The plot is terrible, the ending is stupid and anti-climatic, AND IT'S NOT EVEN FUNNY!!!!!!
Was this supposed to be a comedy or a suspense/action movie?
There was not one part in this movie where I laughed, and I'm pretty easy to please.
The only thing unpredictable was how terribly this movie ends.
You don't need to see the movie to see how bad it is..
And I'm not that someone who forgets movies he watched.
There was a complete nut job evil guy, too exaggerated action scenes (where Damon Wayans transforms into Batman!), let alone some things bothered my stomach to the max such as (Marlon Wayans) and (Almayvonne).
It's easy : Vanity's poster on the wall of (Damon Wayans)'s apartment.
And (Damon Wayans)'s performance.
Generally (Mo' Money) isn't a bad movie.
This is one of those movies where you are wondering what Hollywood executive read over this project and said, "Yeah, this is a sure hit, it'll make us millions..".
It was like that old uncle everyone has that tries to tell jokes on Thanksgiving and Christmas, and he's laughing away, while the rest of us are rolling our eyes and wondering when dessert will be ready.
It's really a shame this wasn't a better movie, Damon Wayans did some funny stuff in IN LIVING COLOUR.Oh well, I guess they can't all be big hits....
Mo' Money was another one of "Pat's Picks." It's a waste of good celluloid.
A 12 year old would find this movie funny, but no one over the age of 14 could think it anything short of an insult.It might be worth the price of a rental for one reason and one reason only: Stacey Dash.
If, like myself, you want to see Stacey, look for her in other movies...
The comedy elements are unfortunate as they usually are in films like these, but I never forgot the Wayans sightings.
His character is smug, superior, and selfish in a way meant to be attractive, charming, and funny, and except for girlfriend Stacey Dash everyone else is stupid, eccentric, psychopathic, or suffering from some physical disability (also meant go be amusing).
You mean there was a time that a Wayans brother was really funny?.
Mo' Money is lightweight and disposable, but if nothing else it does show that Damon Wayans was, at one point in his career at least, funny.
Were it not for The Last Boy Scout this would be far and away his most watchable film.Strangely enough the filmmakers decided to build a comedy around a plot which at its core is a crime film.
Naughty white guys have started a scam involving pre-approved credit cards issued to deceased customers (dead men tell no tales), and running up expensive tabs buying items to be resold at lower prices.Damon and his little brother Marlon (who is now in every second crappy comedy made) are John and Seymour, two small time scammers whose lives revolve around the pursuit of cash, as long as it doesn't involve real work.As Seymour says not once but twice to painful effect in the film "A job ain't nothing' but work." When John comes across a young woman for whom he harbours amorous intent, his pursuit takes him to the offices of a large corporation, where he decides the best way to further his courting process is to take a menial job as a mailroom assistant in the same building.To complete the tenuous plot connections the brothers are somewhat "mentored" by Walsh, the ex-partner of their deceased policeman father who coincidentally happens to be investigating the credit card scam, which happens to be going on in the new firm John just got the job with.Phew...Long story short, John gets involved over his head in the credit card scam and must find a way to extricate himself without further drama or police intervention, whilst at the same time allowing him to pick up (and later keep hold of) his love interest named Amber, who it must be said is a terrible actress who is given some painfully forced dialogue.But Mo' Money has precious little to do with the plot, it is a chance for the two Wayans to try on different personas in a series of scenes which are basically skits that serve only to cause amusement and do the bare minimum to justify the next scene, where they can do the same thing only different.Being an early 90s film and being that Wayans is a hip black guy he gets to wear a whole range of increasingly stupid looking hats (all of which are supposed to be cool by the way), and a garish collection of "urban executive" wear, which I guess were all fashionable at the time.The humour is largely based upon the larger than life characters in the film, many of them created by John as he runs his various scams early on, but some of them in the various bit parts that populate the rest of the cast.
There are numerous throwaway lines and scenes-within a scene that try to scatter jokes throughout with about a 50/50 success rate, and keeping with that ratio thankfully the bonehead lines (and there are a few) are equally offset by some really good moments.Given that the PC craze was only just gaining steam in the early 90s there are a few thinly veiled race-related jokes that fall flat in today's environment, not so much because they are racially based but because they just aren't that funny to begin with.It seems that the only three "straight" people in the film that are not caricatures for comedy's sake are Amber, Detective Walsh and the bad guy...Now I considered it odd that a light comedy would even bother with the intrusion of a criminal sub-plot, especially one that justifies the murders that happen in the film, but if you are to have a bad guy, at least make him menacing, this is where Mo' Money definitely succeeds.The bad guy Harry Lennix, the head of security in the credit card firm, keeps things low key and doesn't resort to overacting his way through his scenes like the remainder of the cast.
You are always guessing at what he might do next, especially as you know he is capable of acts of violence from early in the film, and you are just waiting for him to snap and do something.When he finally does it isn't his fault that the finale seems totally out of place in an 80′s flashback over the top sort of way, but the film had to end somehow, and turning Wayan's character into an instant quasi Bruce Willis must have seemed like a good idea at the time.Despite the dated elements of Mo' Money, and the fact that the crime elements seemed forced into what should have been a fluffy personality driven comedy I still liked Mo' Money.Final Rating - 6 / 10.
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I was only 9 years old when the epic "Mo' Money" was released in theaters.
Like 3+.When Damon Wayans said, "Mo' Money, Mo' Money, Mo' Money," the world stopped turning; if only for a brief moment.
All was good in the world, and life itself seemed brighter than ever.If there was ever a second coming of Christ, Damon Wayans was his name.
I hired this because a friend of mine said that it was good, but also because Damon Wayans was in it and I find him to be a pretty good actor.
This is a cool little movie, but really only good the first time one watches it.
There are some funny things in it, but they are not hugely hilarious to label it a cult movie.Basically this film is about a con-artist whose dad was a cop who was killed in the line of duty.
The judge dismisses the charges because his lawyer is awful (basically he raves on about the injustice of the system in a Negro evangelist sort of way) and thus he takes this final change to try and go straight.While selling books, be meets a rather nice lady, and applies for a job where she works, being a credit card firm.
The guy tries his hand at the fraud at first, but when he is caught, he is blackmailed into joining this gang.I really can't think of anything in-depth about the movie with the exception that it has the idea that once you are a criminal, it is very difficult to escape your past.
In the end it is a standard action/comedy which doesn't really stand out that much.
I enjoyed it, but it lacks any deep meaning, or simple plain fun, that elevates others movies above it..
This movie wont win any awards, get a fresh tomato on Rottentomatoes.com or be in the top 250 of IMDb(as if anybody cares what these stupid sheep think!) but it was still a funny movie and brought to you at a time when the Wayans Brothers were at the top of their game.Story: Johnny Stewart(Damon Wayans) is a hustler that plans on going legit after meeting an attractive woman named Amber(Stacey Dash).
So he gets a job as a mail room clerk and ends up stealing a credit card and goes on a shopping spree with his brother Seymour(Marlon Wayans).
Damon and Marlon work well together on screen and generate the most laughs.
Stacey Dash is great also as Amber.
If you like to see the Wayans Brothers before they started making rubbish like Little Man than this movie is for you.
I can watch this movie over and over again.
The script is kinda dry, but overall its still a great movie.
Another good part was towards the end of the movie when the nurse yelled "now get out of my face" to cornbread..
Trying to get his career into the A-list, Damon Wayans gets a job in a credit card company.
He falls in love with Stacy Dash, winning her over by mocking her well educated, successful boyfriendWhen he steals a couple of cards, the chief of security drags him into the big leagues of criminals....Blimey, how someone's opinion of film can change in twenty years.
When this was first released, it was one of my all time favourites, but I was only fifteen, and I thought Wayans was excellent in The Last Boy Scout, and this looked like fun.Now even though the film is still fun, that's all it is, fun, and it's devoid of any proper narrative until halfway through the second act.
Up until then it's just the Marlon and Damon comedy laugh in, as it just feels like a string of sketches (albeit amusing ones) leading up to the plot.So the first forty five minutes is a sketch show,the last forty five an action movie, with a few dabs of romance, and some very, very, baggy clothes involved.The toe leads are fun and keep the film together, Stacy Dash is beautiful but cannot act for a bean, and Diehl is your atypical nineties bad guy.But the moral of the story is, its fun to steal, spend others money, and get in trouble.
Oh, and to steal a dead persons flowers.But it's still a fun movie..
Johnny Stewart (Damon Wayans) and Seymour Stewart (Marlon Wayans) are two brothers who make their living as con men.
When Johny meets Amber Evans (Stacey Dash) he is immediately in love with her.
In order to find the way to her heart he decides to get a normal job at the office where Ambers works.Mo'Money is a nice comedy.
An attempt has been made to add some suspense to the movie by adding a story line about credit card fraud.
The execution of this disappoints, which makes it feel tacked on and rushed.I like the humor in this movie and it's the main reason I watched it again.
There are some other scenes which I also like (like the one where Seymour wakes up in the morning next to the girl he picked up the night before).Mo'Money is not a movie everyone will like or laugh about, but it's one which I like enough to have watched it again after not having seen it for many years..
MO' MONEY might have possibly been able to get away with its mean-spirited, homophobic and tasteless atmosphere if it were witty or clever or perhaps even funny.
It's a moronic, nasty comedy by a moronic, nasty comedian who wants to drag everyone but himself through the mud.Damon Wayans is one of those comedians who will tell a joke at anyone's expense but his own.
Apparently wanting to show a slightly more serious side of his persona, he does this by playing every scene with the same blank expression on his face, except for a few moments when he feels the need to mug it up with his smug, self-indulgent smirk.The other Wayans brothers have proved themselves willing to be the butt of their own jokes.
It was once said the first person a good comedian has to be able to laugh at is himself.
If Damon Wayans ever learned that lesson, it was definitely after he made MO' MONEY.