Runtime:
93 minutes
Directed
by: Leonardo Ricagni
Starring:
Jeremy Davies, Rachael Leigh Cook, Chris O'Donnell, Michael Rapaport,
Jon Polito
From:
Alliance Atlantis Communications
Here's
something I wasn't expecting to see but late last night I was
channel-surfing and I looked ahead and noticed this film playing on
The Movie Channel so I decided to check it out, as it's been on there
somewhat regularly for the past few weeks and I might as well watch
it to continue my Cook-a-thon.
Even
though I heard some things in the IMDb user reviews that frightened
me, such as this being quirky and odd and a poor attempt at being
either Tarantino or Lynch, I was hoping this would be alright, given
that besides the people I listed there's also the likes of Bill
Pullman, Keith David, Michael Lerner, and Russell Means. Despite his
name being in the credits, Carlos Mencia (yes) was cut from the film.
That was fine by me, as from what little I've heard I've never found
him funny, and given that the first thing you see on Google when you
look him up is that he “steals jokes” (which I understand is
true), I am glad his 15 minutes of fame ran out a long time ago.
As
for the plot of this movie, it's rather simple: a random guy gets
accused of being an undercover FBI agent by some people at a
small-time Indian casino. That guy is carrying around a bunch of
cash. It passes through the hands of various people, just about all
of them rather unpleasant and they all happen to run into each other
quite often despite the movie taking place in the California desert
in the middle of nowhere.
As
you can probably tell, I wasn't the biggest fan of the movie. Sure,
there were some amusing/funny moments but overall I thought it was
too weird for weird's sake, it was too off-putting with all the
unpleasant characters doing unpleasant things, all the constant
cursing... as of late, not the best of luck in my opinion of
Rachael's movies. Of course she wasn't the problem with the films; as
biased as it sounds she was the best parts of those movies that I
rated poorly, so they weren't total losses. I understand that she was
even involved with the production of this film. It was just not for
me, although on IMDb there are definitely different opinions on
whether or not this is good, so it is not just me. As least Ms. Cook
was nice to look at and her character was the one that was the least
detestable, so that was good.
In
terms of things to mention, well, Keith David (a sheriff) smokes what
he calls medicinal marijuana in one scene. And Pullman's character
is not only rather strange, but he dresses, has his hair done, and
even acts like... Crispin Glover! No kidding. I wouldn't be shocked
if they tried to get Glover for the role but he turned it down so
they just got someone else to be him.
The
premise sure sounded cool and it was a nice cast, but I thought this
was blah for the most part.
I'll
be back late tonight with something I enjoyed quite a bit more than
this.
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