Even Flow? Not in this movie!

Rating: 7/10 (26 February 1999)

If you like a movie to flow onwards, so you can be caught up in the story, don't go expecting it from this one. The movie starts off very slowly, gets slower & by the time the action starts is the time you are about to fall asleep. The action will catch your attention & wake you up, but after the short piece of action the story will fall back into its slow moving pace & drag on again for another eternity until a little more action at the end. The characters are never built up correctly & there is plenty of time in the movie for this to have happened.
One of the worst casting decisions of the decade has to go to the person who put John Travolta in the role he was in. Mr Travolta can play numerous characters & is generally very good at portraying them. I'm not sure if it was the poor makeup job on him, but he really wasn't believable at all to me in the role cast.
Nick Nolte put in a good effort, as did Sean Penn who was probably the standout of all the major stars.
Overall not a very good attempt at creating the atmosphere of the time, with too many big name stars which I feel took away from the attempt to make this lifelike. How this movie was ever nominated for any Academy award is beyond me. This was not a visually stimulating movie, as it tried too hard to be one.