“Bayou Caviar” (*1/2 out of four) was a sour action melodrama about a Russian gangster (Richard Dreyfuss in a token appearance) who utilizes an over-the-hill former boxer (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) to take down his associate’s son-in-law after a violent sex tape is made by a photographer (Famke Jannsen). Film can’t make up its mind whether it’s a sleazy underworld thriller, a punch-drunk boxing movie, or a numbing action story and thus fails at all of them. Gooding, Jr.’s directorial debut is sunk by its unfocused story and waste of a fine supporting cast. Let’s be nice and just say this probably isn’t going to show him the money

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