AlWhite

Wow. This movie is bad on every level. There *are* some funny lines, but they feel like they were just stuck into the script. It's a total disaster from start to finish. It was painful to watch R Lee Ermery embarrass himself in this piece of garbage.

The overwhelming fact is that this movie is slow-paced, has almost no conflict, and feels a lot longer than it is.

The good points : Cyndi Lauper and Peter MacDonald. They each deliver a good performance and are quite watchable.

The bad points : not much happens in this movie! The problems that Walken's character faces are fairly boring and the director doesn't help out by maintaining a languid pace the entire time. There was absolutely no suspense in this film.

The script was not cohesive. There are many boring secondary characters who come and go, and the whole thing feels like an overly long TV episode. There wasn't much humour. Some of the dramatic scenes were very well done, such as Lauper telling Walken to get out, but others were quite bad.

I did like quite a few of the shots in the movie. I always admire a director who knows how to shoot cars, and the opening shots do a great job showing off a nice Buick Riviera. I also liked a few of the shots of Vic's van, and there's an "orbit" shot of Peter MacDonald later on that was pretty good.

Overall however I would not watch this again nor reccomend that anyone else see it.

I went into this totally clean - I happened to walk past a theatre that shows foreign films once in a while, all the domestic releases looked horrible, so we took a chance on this.

I haven't seen such a hilarious film in years. I think that many people were disappointed or offended by the juxtaposition of low comedy and some truly violent scenes and situations, but I think that if you kept a totally open mind and allowed the film to carry you on an emotional wave, you could see that it is tragic and comic at the same time, neither one being more valid than the other.

This was a real milestone film for me. I loved it!