Fast Money

Plot synopsis:
Francesca Marsh (Yancy Butler) is a luxury car thief who's involved in a chase with the local California Highway police chasing her for her latest car theft. Having caused a major multi-car pileup on a local expressway, she flees from the scene on foot and latches onto journalist Jack Martin (Matt McCoy) who is on his way to cover a karaoke convention in nearby San Diego.Desiring a change of wheels, the amoral Francesca steals another car, a flashy red sportscar, not realizing that there are several counterfeit plates as well as $2.7 million in cash in the car's truck. Meanwhile, Sir Stewart (Jacob Witkin), a British crime lord, learns about the thief of his car and orders his triggerman Regy (Trevor Goddard) to team up with bad cop Lt. Diego (John Ashton) to retrieve the goods and eliminate the car thief, as well as anyone who gets too close to learning what they are after.Adept at outsmarting the pitbull Diego, Francesca tracks down Jack where she wheedles him into further cooperation by pointing out the headline potential of their predicament. When Jack is entrapped by corrupt federal agents on Stewart's payroll, Jack turns over the counterfeit plates, but the streetwise Francesca arrives where she kills the crooked officials before they can kill Jack under orders from Stewart.Now fugitives, Francesca and Jack head out on the road. They decide that the only way to get away from all this is by fleeing to the Mexican border where they will be free. As they travel on, the erstwhile Bonnie and Clyde couple outsmart the police persuing them every step of the way. But Regy and Lt. Diego finally corner the fugitive couple at a local roadside tavern where they demand the handover of the money in the trunk of their stolen car. Increasintly rattled, Regy guns down a barmaid to show Francesca and Jack that he means business.However, Francesca and Jack escape once more and they decide to lie low for a while at the apartment of Jack's mother while awaiting passports arranged by Jack's newspaper editor. But Jack's editor and his companion are murdered by the thugs who arrive to cancel their plans. Forced to flee from his mother's apartment, Jack and Francesca flee once more with the stolen cash to the San Ysitro border crossing.When Jack is wounded, Francesca helps stow them away in an ice cream truck. After hitching another ride from a nervous guy, the couple attempts to cross the border on foot. But then Regy appears in a helicopter shooting down at them, forcing Francesca to drop the loot in order to run more faster. Jack manages to use the persuing Diego as a human shield as he and Francesca shoot Regy right out of the chopper who falls to his death, while Diego is dead too from taking many bullet hits. Free, but without the money, Jack and Francesca cross the border into Mexico and are left with deciding what to do next.

Tags: murder

Review:
Good for action movie (and Yancy Butler) fans.. I admit that I didn't have many expectations from this movie: I wasn't expecting a masterpiece, but just an ordinary, violent action movie, which also happened to have Yancy Butler starring in it(and that's even better.)And that was all I got. So I suggest this movie to all action movie fans and also to Yancy Butler fans, like I am. You're definitely going to like it.. Great action, ok movie. Fast Money is a great action movie with a mediocre script but great action scenes. If you're into car chases, big explosions, gunfights and explosive women, this is the movie to watch on a summer's night.Beautiful and highly strung Yancy Butler steals the show as a professional car thief, when she inadvertently bumps into straight laced Matt McCoy's investigative reporter. When "going to get a car" (i.e., stealing one), she happens to break into the wheels of Trevor Goddard's Regy, a violent criminal in the employ of a developer who wants to finance his enterprise with counterfeit money. With a stupidity only matched by his violence, Regy leaves both two false plates and 2,7 million dollars lying in his car, and guess what, Yancy Butler's Francesca (Frank) has the bonus of her lifetime. They get pursued by both Regy and John Ashton's corrupt cop, Lt. Diego. Ashton (Taggert in Beverly Hills I & II) and Goddard make a fine comical pair of crooks. Always nice to see how the bad guys are getting more dialogue after Pulp Fiction.In all, this is not a great movie, the script can be clunky, but the action is hot, and since Drop Zone, I admit to being a die hard Yancy Butler fan.Don't hold your expectations too high, and you'll be pleasantly surprised.. yancy is a goddes. this movie is by far one of her better works. its exciting and a bit unpredictible! which is far to say than many of her inferiour works (ravager) also this movie has great lighting. as far as the other acting matt is less than perfect and plays up th nerd concept way too much. if anything just see this for yancy. its killer so is she.