I'll be safe when the punches start flying

I went to my local haircutting place last night to, obviously, get a haircut. I found myself in a chair with an attractive Russian woman cutting my hair. Ok, actually she was Ukranian, but it's all the same to us cold-war capitalists. Even though the thought crossed my mind I decided not to ask if she could recommend any house cleaners.
After leaving there I headed over to my local video store. I needed an evening of sitting on the couch doing little to nothing. Looking around I found lots of movies that I’ve already seen and even more that I had no desire to see. I came across one that looked intriguing. It was called ‘Employee of the Month’. What caught my eye was a picture of a scantily clad Christina Applegate. Those of us that grew up in the 80’s will see this as a very good thing. I decided to give it a try even though it had the appearance of a low-budget indi-film.
After stopping at my favorite sandwich place (Quizno’s), I went home and popped it in. Oh, I forgot to mention Matt Dillon was in the male lead role. It started out rather promising. Then the movie goes through more ups and downs of good-to-bad acting, good-to-bad dialogue, good-to-bad plot twists. Basically the movie follows Dillon’s character as he experiences an unbelievably bad day. He starts hi day by getting fired from his bank job, then his new fiancé (Applegate) dumps him, in front of her parents, for his infidelity, with her best friend.
A recurring theme throughout the movie is that nothing is at it appears. Following that theme the story takes an interesting twist when his bank is robbed. Dillon is shot, then kidnapped, after trying to defend his, now former, co-workers. We then realize he was part of the hold up.
This movie reminded me a lot of another Matt Dillon classic “Wild Things”. The end goes through twist after twist after twist. To the point where I was thinking ‘ok, enough already’.
Over all not a bad movie, but not great. I’d probably give it a B-/C+. If there is nothing else at the video story it might be worth looking at the box.
On another note, I am going to the Piston’s game tonight. My brother-in-law got free tickets from one of this companies suppliers to use their suite. So I can be safely behind glass when the punches start flying. We are taking my soon-to-be three year old nephew. He already seems to be intrigued by sports. I’m going to have to start teaching him the basics; throwing, catching, etc. probably starting this spring. I have to take on that responsibility, as uncle and God-father, because his parents while very smart people, just don’t know much about sports.