It's kinda like finding out that the chick you just met and are about to have sex with, is in fact, a dude.
After a kickass beginning sequence with a fat Val Kilmer running around
in a trench coat, I was filled with joy. Finally, a good Val Kilmer movie! Boy... was I wrong. This drama is set in a park, where Val Kilmer walks around in it (surprisingly), talking to past and present relationships in order to find some sense in his life and if his profession as a thief is really worth giving up everything he loves to it. If I wanted to see Val Kilmer in a trenchcoat, walking around and talking on the phone with a bunch of people for an hour and 20 minutes, I would've gotten high first. The pace of the movie is horrible. So if you aren't patient, then you are sh*t out of luck. Latest sensation Bobb'e J stalks Kilmer because of his unfamiliar face and begins having a conversation, which ends in an endearing relationship. In this doesn't seem interesting to you, then imagine seeing it paced a la Good Shepperd. The script is also horrible. A couple of interesting situations and whatever, but who would've thought that walking around in a park and phone conversations would make for a good movie? The character of Bobb'e is also redundant and unnecessary, whilst the numerous flashbacks striking the final nail in the coffin. The acting is surprising, especially from Kilmer and Marg, but it doesn't save the movie. Wilmer Bananarama is tedious and only there for whoever in their sane mind wants to see him in anything other than That 70's Show. There is also some guy named Michael Muhney, who is supposedly a big shot according to the back of the DVD. He was wasted here, so if you want to see this movie for Michael whoever, then you will be sorely disappointed. Anyways, I cannot recommend this one unless you have a Val Kilmer shrine in your basement. This is quite possibly, the worst Val Kilmer vehicle I have ever seen. It isn't entertaining, it isn't well written, it isn't good. Save yourself the money or the bandwidth.. 
Val Kilmer rocks
Definitely a movie worth watching. Val Kilmer is such a complex and an
accomplished actor that this movie fits him like a glove. The story itself is an action - crime thriller (where Kilmer is an semi-high profile thief that plans on retiring "en fanfare") interweaved with the drama of his personal life, which he plans on rebuilding by breaking up with his foreign girl-friend and start over with his ex-wife (Marg Helgenberger) and daughter he knows so little. These two plans come together in Echo Park where his last job comes down. The only thing I don't understand is that Antoine kid....his character was a little confusing and I didn't quite get what his role in the movie was. Other than that, acting is great, script is OK i guess, keen on details, overall the movie is very enjoyable...at least for me it was...... |
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