I know that you should never expect too much from a music-video director since they almost never deliver. So it must have been the little Swede inside of me that wanted Swedish director Jonas Åkerlunds feature-film debut to be something good. Disappointment guaranteed.
The junkie Ross (Jason Schwartzman) is used as driver by a drug-making cowboy played by Mickey Rourke. It's a three day journey without sleep, constantly twitchy with speed.
This is nothing for people with epilepsy. There are literally thousands of cuts in this movie. And the words "like watching a two hour music video" have never been more true. And while it occasionally does look stylish and slick (the way i imagined Åkerlund wanted the whole movie to look) it still becomes more annoying than entertaining in the end. The whole speed-freak journey with everyone always high and the camera always twitching is simply not working. All the sex and explicit scenes also feel mostly like exploitation in the end since there is so little else going on.
In the end this movie just feels over-worked. Åkerlund tries so hard to make it cool that it falls flat. In the end it doesn't matter how many nods to popular culture he adds, or how many slick shots he pulls off, when the result is a movie that lacks cohesion and entertainment value. I rate this 3/10.
The junkie Ross (Jason Schwartzman) is used as driver by a drug-making cowboy played by Mickey Rourke. It's a three day journey without sleep, constantly twitchy with speed.
This is nothing for people with epilepsy. There are literally thousands of cuts in this movie. And the words "like watching a two hour music video" have never been more true. And while it occasionally does look stylish and slick (the way i imagined Åkerlund wanted the whole movie to look) it still becomes more annoying than entertaining in the end. The whole speed-freak journey with everyone always high and the camera always twitching is simply not working. All the sex and explicit scenes also feel mostly like exploitation in the end since there is so little else going on.
In the end this movie just feels over-worked. Åkerlund tries so hard to make it cool that it falls flat. In the end it doesn't matter how many nods to popular culture he adds, or how many slick shots he pulls off, when the result is a movie that lacks cohesion and entertainment value. I rate this 3/10.