John Travolta is outstanding in it as is the rest of the cast but it just didn't seem to amount to a lot. It was pretty good, sometimes quite funny with odd bursts of violence but I don't know. Altogether it just seems like it's missing something but maybe that's just me. Perhaps if I read the book, it'd mean more. What it's saying about Hollywood I think everybody already knows and knew a long time ago but perhaps it seemed more fresh and daring in the 90s. I wasn't quite sure where it was going but then when it got there, I felt so so. Not awful, quite good in fact, but something was missing for me. As far as films based on Elmore Leonard's work, I prefer Out of Sight or 3:10 to Yuma.
Review of Get Shorty
