| I really wish this movie had had a better ad campaign. I saw the trailer at some other movie not long before this was released, and dismissed as another movie along the lines of Four Brothers (which I saw in the theater and regretted wasting the time). That and it had Paul Walker starring in it... prior to this the only good thing I could think of to say about him would've been "well, at least he had sense enough not to sign up for Tokyo Drift."
Anyway, Walker actually does a really good job in this movie. His accent sounded like that of someone from Cali who once heard someone from NJ talking on television, but that's about the only complaint I had. Not going to start running out to see everything he stars in or anything, but I won't actively avoid his movies anymore.
The movie itself is MUCH more interesting than the trailer leads you to believe. It's like they tried to avoid showing how surreal much of it is; the movie is really like a series of fairy tales adapted to the present and infused with sex, nudity, and most importantly--extreme violence.
It's not a perfect movie by any means. The hunt for the gun probably could've been shortened a bit, because once all the twists and turns in the movie are done with, the gun really stops being all that important. Some people might not like the final twist, and I definitely won't be sitting down to analyze the movie to figure whether it really was plausible or not. The scenes with the pimp and the husband and wife duo (that's the moment when I realized just how fucked up the movie was) more than made up for any other shortcomings.
9/10 -- It might not be the best movie I've see this year so far, but it was the most entertaining. If you like bizarre, ultraviolent movies, you have to rent this one. [US release date is June 6.] | 