Live Fast, Die Young

The title and accompanying graphics definitely lured me into giving Live Fast, Die Young a viewing. Oh, and also the fact that is was directed by Paul Henreid. I think Henreid did a competent job with the direction. The sets and art direction were both also solid enough as well. As for the cast, it's a broad ensemble for sure but given the material they had to work with, i think they all did a decent job. The main, and glaring issue with Live Fast, Die Young is the script. It just showed no imagination, no humor, and no real character development. Everyone was very one dimensionally bad or good with no one in-between. You either had a 'heart of gold' or were 'rotten to the core' and all presented in the simplest, most cliched 50's dialogue. Oh, and all of them were uniformly cynical. The whole thing was actually kind of depressing.