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Dancing_P [ 4.0 ]
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Uninspired post-Tarantino claptrap written and directed by the Oscar-winning scribe of The Usual Suspects. Ryan Phillippe and Benicio Del Toro play two low-lifes who decided to kidnap a young pregnant woman (Juliette Lewis) and hold her up for ransom. The only thing is, she’s actually a surrogate mother for the chief of the mob (Scott Wilson) who sends out his two lackeys (Nicky Katt and Taye Diggs) to get rid of our two nitwits. Then James Caan shows up, everybody shoots everything, they swear, bleed, shoot some more, bleed some more and at the end, well… I won’t spoil it, but you know what happens. The film is complete hogwash, a series of ‘cool’ shootouts, peppered with some lame dialogue here and there. Nothing in this damn film is original or remotely entertaining except the opening scene, a profanity-laden insult match that’s entertaining but has absolutely no purpose within the context of the story. The film’s saving grace is its acting; although none of the actors are particularly good (except maybe Del Toro), none of them are particularly bad, either. A friend of mine loves this movie; it never crossed my mind to ask him why.
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jeff_v [ 6.0 ]
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I wanted to like this more than I did. It's a genuinely weird-ass movie --most reviews wrote it off as a wan Tarantino imitation but beyond the florid dialogue there's not much connection. The action is rather realistic, but the context in which it unfolds is absurd. McQuarrie loads each character up with bags of motivation and scenes tend to bear a mysterious metaphorical weight that never crystalize into a statement. Allusions to Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, The Wild Bunch and classic film noir pile up into you can barely see the action onscreen through the humps of movie symbology.
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JD [ 5.0 ]
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I've just seen so many of these Tarantino knock-offs that they all seem like you're watching the same film over and over again. While Phillippe and Del Toro make a great duo, a half decent plot would have helped. The final shootout was pretty good though but getting there was a long drawn out process.
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| Weighted Rating | : 5.6 |
| No. Ratings | : 14 | |
| No. Reviews | : 6 | |
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