Sean Penn,
Nick Nolte,
Jennifer Lopez,
Powers Boothe,
Claire Danes
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Oliver Stone directed this John Ridley screenplay adapted from Ridley's novel Stray Dogs. A drifter (Sean Penn) eludes Las Vegas collection agents and arrives in a small town where he decides to linge... read more
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Release Date: October 3, 1997
DVD Release Date: March 31, 1998
Stats: 945 reviews
Many ripped this one, and while you can easily point a bunch of really annoying things going on (Lopez character and Penn beign tricked again and again) this is an enjoyable romp for us who prefer more acid and less optimistic stories. Not to mention that compared with what Stone... read more
An amazing Neo-Noir/Western that's almost impossible to not enjoy on at least some level. The story is incredibly well-written and the characters are perfectly twisted. Sean Penn delivers a great performance as Bobby Cooper, in debt and in need of a break. There's also soe great ... read more
Lurid and Excessive. These two words perfectly describe this film. They also perfectly describe Stone's earlier film Natural Born Killers. Where they differ is that NBK is brilliant, and this is just messy. The same problems that plague the film also plagued the source material. ... read more
Oliver Stone does Lynchian-Peckinpah, and the results are suprisingly good.
Oliver Stone turns his hand from politics to ripping off Quentin Tarantino, and the result is incoherent, nasty and uninvolving. A great cast is wasted trying to breathe life into a bunch of self-conciously oddball cardboard cut-outs and it's all so meandering and unstructured it... read more
dirty and completely off the wall, but i was entertained by this flick in some ways.
It's so empty emotionally it's difficult to see what the point is, unless it's the celebration of emptiness, an aim that has become so familiar recently it hardly seems worth the trouble everyone has ... Full Review
It demonstrates a filmmaker in complete command of his craft and with little control over his impulses. Full Review
The film takes so many detours that at least one or two of them are bound to surprise even the most jaded movie-goer. Full Review
Although many of the performances -- particularly from Nolte, Penn and Thornton -- are enjoyable, the movie plunges so deeply into black comedic hell, all is lost. Full Review
Stone the propagandist was insufferable, but as a cynic he's even worse. Full Review
A sometimes uproarious minor work.
This is a repetitive, pointless exercise in genre filmmaking -- the kind of movie where you distract yourself by making a list of the sources. Full Review
Stone has stretched this rubber band past the point where it should snap into parody, but it still holds the shape of a rubber band.
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