Driving by their deep need for money, Sam, Mike and Owen, a trio of best friends, who have to make a robbery, because of their big need for money, so they plan for a fast robber within 7 minutes, but when the robbery goes amiss, they struggle against survival.
There isn't a character here... who doesn't feel like a low-res scan of a shaky photocopy of a faded polaroid of a character in a better crime drama, none of which is helped by a plot that's too simple to generate tension even from its narrative tricks.
Though 7 Minutes does offer an impressive array of backstories for a film that initially appears to be about three semi-interchangeable guys, most of those backstories are still dominated by clichés ...
Like most of today's young directors who neither want to nor know how to tell an actual story in a traditional way with a beginning, middle and end, writer-director Jay Martin jumps around like a spastic colon.
