Unoriginal rehash of old Cruise pimpdom

Rating: 7/10 (1 October 2004)

The film industry can't quite figure out how to appropriate old TC movies for the next generation, so this is it...all the triteness reconfigured with a new and better soundtrack, and the hooker with a heart of gold storyline. The young leads, Emil Hirsh and Elisha Cuthbert are in the same roles as Cruise and DeMornay, but with far less acting talent but same amount of puppy fat. Geeks, footballers, and porn stars at the prom recreate the night to "walk like a man" but without the originality. In the crazed pimp-psycho role first created by the excellent Joey Pan, is HBO's Deadwood hotter than hot sheriff-good guy, Timothy Olyphant, in the role of a looser porn promoter. He brings the only chops to this otherwise been there, done that premise.
This snooze fest is so cliché ridden that the ending is worse than predictable, its yuppie-puppie-spawn spew. So bad, so awful.