Both movies feature assorted losers driven to desperate measures in hopes of gaining command over their bleak, going-nowhere lives. Because he never gets around to explaining how or why these wacky sleazoids got that way, however, he never provides a reason to care about any of them. Once again, however, Freddie has triggered Red's red-hot temper. Things haven't improved much since that fateful date, with Jjaks splitting his time between life on the road and life in jail. Baigelman tosses these stale scraps into his cinematic food processor and whirls away, then dumps them onto a platter and nukes them in the microwave, recapturing nothing but the cardboard texture of leftovers that have been served up once too often.
Somebody start the disposal.