Decadent

Rating: 3/10 (24 February 2005)

I've seen a number of CG hell films in the last couple of years, so I'm familiar with the brand of special effects, including the Matrix effect, used this time with broken glass. But the plot of these style pieces are so thin and incoherent, you feel as if you are in hell, with stale popcorn. I got the feeling this script was written on cocktail napkins in the VP section of the Viper room in LA. Just decadent jaded people who hate living in the so-called city of angels and want to wallow in Navarro-Sixx-Phoenix inspired hell. What more can you ask for than sunshine and abisinthe, I ask while the snow is piling up outside. Keanu is still handsome, I guess, no thanks to his lifestyle and career choices (too many bad Satanic films) He still hasn't been in a film I like since River's Edge (1987) After leaving, I immediately wondered what kind of treatment this will receive on DVD. Is it arty enough to warrant a commentary track, entertaining enough to warrant a featurette. Let's just leave it at mysterious and monosyllabic. 2.0 channel, 5.1 channel and English subtitles will do.