You're No Daisy If You Miss This!

Rating: Null/10 (20 November 2000)

This is Val's finest hour, no doubt about this. Non-Western and non-Kilmer fans still are amazed at his performance. Val chews the scenery, digests the scenery....you get the picture. His lack of an Oscar is yet another in the long litany of Academy Award buffoonery. The scenes where he confronts Michael Biehn are highly charged: Biehn looks at Kilmer and sees his future, and it frightens him. The film suffers in terms of continuity, but a lot of the continuity was left on the cutting-room floor: the relationship between Billy Zane and Jason Priestly; and scenes between Kilmer and Joanna Pacula, etc. Hopefully these scenes will be in the inevitable "director's cut" DVD. This version will hopefully showcase the secondary actors such as the excellent Stephen Lang, and of course more of Val Kilmer! Too bad that his later career has been, shall we say, somewhat erractic ( Dr.Moreau....AAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!)