Strange casting

Rating: Null/10 (2 June 2006)

I thought that perhaps the oddest thing about this movie was its casting. Johnny Depp and Heather Graham.......peeeeerrrrrrlease! Not that they are bad actors, they did a good job all considered. Its just that I did not find these typical Hollywood types in the faintest bit believable. Kinda up there with Tab Hunter as Christ (Didn't that actually happen or am I thinking of some other "Star" of the 1950s.) But I should not be too down on Hollywood, after all Robbie Coltrane would probably not have been my first choice for the sidekick either. Again...a reasonable "journeyman" actor but for goodness sake! Finally the dialogue. Sounded more like a script from a late 1990s crime drama. Lots of street talk.. (F... this and F...that) still I should not be too upset, at least no one called the other a "mo fo" Not that I mind profanity. But if you are going to do it at least make it culturally sensitive and chronologically accurate.
6 out of 10.