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starring Christian Slater and Cameron Diaz
Okay, they're nice people, I'm sure. But in the movie, not a single
character was likeable. NOT AT ALL. As the title suggests, it's one very
bad thing after another. No redemption for anyone, not that they deserve
it. They don't. Kill someone, and cover it up by killing someone else. Whoops. Got a problem with a
tattle-tale? Kill him. Kill the mom, kill the kids. Kill the prostitute,
kill the black guy, kill your best friend. Do it with a knife, do it with a
car. It doesn't matter how, just kill 'em.
And the dialogue... Ugh. Were there any good lines? No. Could you
understand anything anyone was saying? Not
really. They would all talk at the same time, which drove me absolutely
bezerk. I hate it when that happens in real life, and onscreen, it's worse,
because you can't shut them up. To be honest, I'd have killed them all,
too. Jonathan Favreau is the lest immoral of the bunch. He took a great
turn with Swingers, but has done nothing since. And this, sadly, won't be
his comeback picture. Christian Slater isn't anything more than the sleazy
bastard he's been in just about everything else except Julian Po. Daniel
Stern is a big Jew, so I kinda liked him, but he wouldn't stop whining.
Please, Daniel. Kvetch all you like, but do
it with some style. Jeremy Piven, Jeanne Tripplehorn, a few others... None
worth remembering. None had a moment of goodness about them. Cameron Diaz
had more style putting semen in her hair in There's Something About Cameron
Diaz than she had in any moment of this film.
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