Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
3/4
Just how unlucky could it become
poonhokong - wrote on 04/01/2011
Roger Ebert called it a "repetitive, pointless exercise in film-making", for everyparts of it comes from somewhere. Yes the plot does bear quite resemblemence to Red Rock West (1994) starring Nick Cage, but the different focus, style and direction makes it an impressive movie in its own right.
The main attraction of this movie is the town. In the middle of nowhere, a burning sun, surrounded by eagles, waiting for you to die to eat your flesh, a road that leads out of town but kills you on the way without a mean of transportation, and a broken car. Moreover, this town is a trap, and everything in it is a trap. Every decision you make is a wrong one. Get your car fixed, wrong. Go to the grogery store for something to eat, wrong. Meet a beautiful girl, wrong. Buying a bum a Dr. Pepper, …
Rating of
2/4
65%
CJP - wrote on 02/02/2009
Action: 2/3 + Comedy: 1/2 + Love/Sex: 1/1 + Plot: 0.5/1 + Music: 1/1 + Good vs. Evil: 0.5/1 + Special Effects: 0.5/1 = 6.5/10 or 65%.
There are a variety of ways that things can happen when a main character is on the run. The most common being that he/she is a dominating bad-ass that can beat-up anything, or he/she will lay low while having a nervous breakdown about the people after him/her, or he/she assumes a completely new identity until the past catches up. Sean Penn's character is not nearly intelligent enough to pull any of these off well, but he tries every single one once. He also has a duffle bag filled with about $30,000.00 and is on his way to Vegas to try to double it.
Once he meets Jennifer Lopez's Grace everything goes to ruin and every small town stereo type you can …
