Runtime:
98 minutes
Directed
by: J. Todd Anderson
Starring:
Michael Rappaport, Michael Jeter, John Carroll Lynch, Rachael Leigh
Cook
From:
October Films
Here
is a movie that I know I saw like two minutes of on TV in what had to
be '99, but never checked out and watched in full until tonight. What
was an inpetus was that I was fooling around on YouTube and stumbled
across a clip that had some brief scenes from the movie, and I saw
that a barely 18 year old Ms. Cook was dressed like a biker chick
from the 80's, with giant hair, a leather top, ripped fishnets...
well, it shot up... I mean, the movie shot up to the top of the queue
on Netflix.
I'll
admit that what I've seen from The Coen Brothers, I am not a big fan.
Too strange and off-putting for me. I HATE The Big Lebowski and I
have zero comprehension as to why so many people around my age think
it's one of the greatest films ever made. Maybe I've seen the wrong
stuff, though, and thus sometime soon I'll try to watch at least one
or two of their movies so that I can talk about it on here and
possibly piss people off if I don't like them. How does that relate
to this movie? Well, it was co-written by Ethan Coen and director
Anderson, who has been a long time storyboard artist for the
brothers.
The
plot on IMDb sounds rather simplistic: “A man takes matters into
his own hands when a pharmaceutical kingpin moves into his town to
cause some real trouble.”
What
the plot should actually read is, “I watch a movie about how a
chiropractor and part time indy pro wrestler with pregnant girlfriend
in tow reunite with their parents, who run a drugstore/soda shop in a
small town. You get to see how he trained to defend himself from
bullies as a teenager and he clashed with his father as he did not
want his son to be a chiropractor. They do reunite, though, and soon
thereafter a guy with spina bifida and a fat guy who dresses and acts
like Elvis kills the parents and seriously hurt the girlfriend due to
the store not having a handicapped ramp. Then, the movie dives in a
surrealistic, absuridst, and incredibly off-putting mess as Mr.
Chiropractor snaps and he starts killing people as he meets up with
biker babe Cook and they eventually get around to getting revenge on
the crippled guy and the fat guy as you see strange characters such
as an indy promoter from seemingly the 30's and gumshoe detectives
from seemingly the 40's... and it's just not for me.”
I
swear, what I just wrote above is entirely accurate. The movie was
just too weird and strange for my tastes, but the biggest thing is
that it was so off-putting. That sort of thing will make me not like
a film rather quickly. Truth be told, Cook kept me watching the
movie; otherwise I would have turned it off in disgust. Besides being
rather easy on the eyes, her character was rather normal, at least in
comparison to the others.
At
least there were some humorous moments and stuff I laughed at, such
as Rachael having “Love” tattooed on the top of one boob and
“Hate” tattooed on the top of the other boob. That is a nice take
on The Night Of The Hunter gag... and speaking of that, there's
another movie I saw and thought was overrated, despite Robert Michum
and Lillian Gish both being pretty awesome in it.
I'll
be back Sunday night with a new review.
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