Style and attitude do not a story make

Rating: 4/10 (9 August 2001)

Sorry, gang; I'm giving this a thumbs down. This pic has great cinamatography and art direction but that only makes it a video, not a movie.
The director and writer had a few ideas for half a movie but couldn't think of anything else while the bills piled up. The first act was good enough but would have been better if it had made up it's mind where it was going. Too many scenes which promised something proved to be red herrings while others just plain dragged. The last act summed up nothing which went on before; it also introduced character relationships and elements which hadn't been seen earlier. Thus the story arc was a complete wreck. On top of all that, the whole movie runs some 30 to 40 minutes too long. All of which are the classic signs of poor direction and writing. It brings to mind the fiasco that was Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991).

It started out as an off-beat buddy movie and ended as cheesy, pyschodramatic wish-fulfillment shlock on a par with The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) except with a bigger budget and no catchy songs. It calls out, `look at me!' but then says nothing else, hoping a fashionably alienated, post-ironic attitude will make up the difference. It never did and never will.