remarkable in some ways but terrible

Rating: 1/10 (3 July 2004)

The script of this movie is so bad, and the acting rises to the script, just awful. No matter how deftly you "open up" a closed space . . . if it's peopled with non people "movie people" cardboard kneejerking stereotypical characters whose motivations seem to come from watching too much really bad TV, you ain't got nothing'
I'm sorry. I actually didn't watch it all but eventually started fast fuad ramsesing the DVD player. Then I got to
Spoilers! Spoilers!
the part where the hunkasaurus ebony alpha male appeared to be doing something really bad and quite inexplicable. when I stopped it rewound and found out how this came about what had seemed possibly interesting turned out to be a really good instance of exactly what I'm talking about in terms of poverty of imagination where it counts and writing that really plumbs the central casting depths: the nice liberal doctor lady had called him, a cop, "you pig"!
This isn't "melodramatic" as the guy from barfly magazine said, it's just really pathetic. Give melodrama some credit ! This is like "springtime for hitler" as drama.
definitely needed more gore and less badly written existential bla bla bla between "atmospheric" characters