Review

by Natacha V

why oh why oh why?

Quentin Tarantino has one hell of a lot to answer for. Thanks to the huge success of Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, budding filmmakers suddenly decided that nothing was more important in a film than being 'cool'. Unfortunately the financiers agreed with them and since the mid 90's there have been endless streams of tediously vapid films that seek to re-cycle the (much over-rated) dialogue style and 'hip' soundtracks of Tarantino's earlier work. I really try to like Val Kilmer, I really do, but there really is nothing to redeem his horrifically self-aware portrayal of an addict who may-or-may-not be undercover after his wife may-or-may-not have been killed by corrupt police officers. Really, who cares? Writer Tony Gayton has said that he never intended the film to be made as the script was more of a writing sample of random disjointed scenarios he could use to get work. It shows.