like grand canyon, pulp fiction or the big chill

Rating: 4/10 (12 May 2006)

I'd recommend anyone to watch this movie. It is not bad.
( thank god its not some dreadful, sadistic garbage like Hostel ).
Problem is, it really doesn't go anywhere. It seems like the self important, over dramatized, nonsense that produced a films like 'Grand Canyon' and 'Pulp Fiction'.
We all know about the problems that are out there. Do we need someone to put it into a movie and pretend he is conveying something that would otherwise pass unknown? Read "Ulysses" or "The Master and Margarita" -- you'll get something from that -- and its less expensive to boot.
The acting is good.
Matt Dillon is the best.
But, in my opinion, their are only two memorable lines, one is when he says "I am a pr** you don't have to like me" and the other is when he tells Ryan Phillipe ( who suddenly looks like Ricky Schroder ), "You think you know who you are. You have no idea." None of us know who we are, circumstance defines character. Someone who thinks they are tough and fearless, might run from a mouse.
Dillon's character saves the woman he had sexually harassed and humiliated, and Phillipe shoots someone because he was reaching for an idol.
Not a bad film. But no masterpiece. Thank god for the connections of that "King Kong" was a horrible waste of time and money.
Watch it and be open minded; but in the end it is ( in my opinion ) just semi-philosophical garbage.
Why don't we have any Bergmans or Wertmullers anymore.
I suppose real art doesn't sell tickets, nor win Oscars.