Ack!

Rating: Null/10 (26 September 1998)

Give me my 90 minutes back! You know a movie is bad with you're more interested in whether or not you should go get another soda than the characters. To be fair I missed the first ten minutes or so and might have missed out on some earth shattering subtext somewhere but I don't think so. Nothing happens in this movie! I saw a "Biography" on A&E that had wilder club scenes, more celebrities and a more poignant plot. Are we supposed to be impressed with the back of Andy Warhol's head. Give me a break! To be fair the movie did have a few good scenes. And I love Heather Matazzarro, even though she is wasted here. In fact there were quite a few things a found to like but every time something else would rear its ugly head. For example Mike Myers, who I read in reviews had totally transformed himself into the Steve character, has a tendency to open his mouth and grin like he's doing a Saturday Night live skit. You want to smack him. This is one of those movies that just meanders toward an anticlimactic close. For example the movie goes out of its way to show characters abusing drugs, but never shows any ill effects from them, except for the old lady who drops dead of course. Shane 54 seems to effortlesly kick all of the habits that the movie shows him developing by the end. And the raid on the club at the end, it's almost an afterthought, even though it contains Myers best line. As they stick him in the police car, "This is so tacky." My advice, stay away. It'll be out on video real, real soon.