nwlovell

Reviewers act as though we should be en guarde lest such fascist control creep into our lives on cats paws. And yet, it is happening all around us. My taxes have been going up and up. Gubment spending on socialist programs to get themselves re-elected increases steadily. We frogs have yet to jump out of the pot of slowly heating water to protest. Heck we don't even demand term limits for socialists like Kennedy and Barney Frank. Next Hitlery Clinton will nationalize the health care industry and force you to pay more for it....you know, for "the children's sake!" America the free, indeed. As for the film, for my taste, it is overdone in the homosexual and scatological shock categories. Certainly don't rent it if you want to see nude chicks. Rent Swimming Pool instead. This review written 7/27/7 before Evita Clinton's rise to the presidency.

Oh boy, if you view this flick as harmless ultraviolence entertainment with misplaced casting and anachronistic music etc, it is an ok ripoff/ remake of Godfather complete with Pacino.... but set in drugrunning Florida. As for the acting, well let's just let M.Pfeiffer sum it up in her own words, "I still think people will find out that I'm really not very talented. I'm really not very good. It's all just been a big sham." Yep, and she delivered just that in this flick. Still, the film is worth a dvd rental. 5/10.

I give it a three outa 10 rating. 1 point is for a cool concept....which was unfortunately developed poorly. 2 more pts for Salma's racque......which is awesome and the only reason, really, to bother renting this video. Since it rates below my minimum cutoff of 5 pts......I can't even recommend seeing it on video rental. The concept of starting with 4 screens is great....but duh, as each story reached its connection with another screen, the border between those two screens should have disappeared. Eventually all four screens should have become one and the ending should have mattered. For that matter, a plot and a script would have been welcome relief from the mess this film is. I love the way the director realizes in the editing room that the film is a bomb...so he tacks on the excuse that the actors were ad-libbing the whole way through. Um, yeah....we could tell. The resulting mess is proof that a script is a good thing.