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Movie Reviews of Go (Special Edition)
Movie Review: Never judge a DVD by its cover!
Summary: 5 Stars
I'd seen this movie around for ages but I never gave it a chance coz of one thing... somebody from Dawsons Creek was on the front! Out of pure boredom I decided to read a review anyway, just to find out how bad it was gonna be. First I looked at the rating, 5 out of 5!! Unbelievably it sounded like a really decent film so I rented it and boy was I pleasantly surprised! Go is a fast paced Comedy/Drama based on one story told from three angles. The first is one girls adventure to try and score some rent money by doing a first time drug deal with a menacing drug dealer. Meanwhile two soap opera actors have been busted for drugs and are helping the cops bust their dealer who is actually away in Las Vegas! The film opens with lots of quick shots at a rave, with Katie Holmes rambling on as if shes on all kinds of drugs - this was something I wasn't expecting, that good girl from Dawsons Creek completely out of it! We then move to a super market and meet one of the main characters Ronna (a superb Sarah Polley) Shes desperate for rent money the day before she is set to be evicted, and so hastley agrees to cover Simons (Desmond Askew) shift so that he can party in Vegas. Two guys arrive at her checkout wondering if she could sort them out for a party that they are going to. With money on the brain she accepts and takes Claire (Holmes) and Mani (Nathan Bexton) on a mission around LA to score some E. The nice thing about this film is that the three stories manage to connect really smoothly and not much brain power is needed. The cast are fantastic, all giving something to make this film very special. I now have changed my mind on that girl from Dawsons Creek and will now continue to call her Katie Holmes and will sometimes even tolerate Dawsons Creek. If you're gonna buy this, I recommend the DVD, its packed with loadsa goodies including an interesting Making of feature and 14 deleted scenes.Movie Review: Great fun
Summary: 5 Stars
I can watch this movie a lot without ever getting tired of it. It has a great talented young cast and they all shine. I especially like the under-rated and underappreciated Timothy Olyphant "why isn't this guy a big star already ???" as a drug dealer. He steals the show every time he's on screen "which isn't enough" and it makes me wish he was in it more. He also has good chemestry with Katie "I Love Tom Cruise" Holmes in their small scenes together.
Desmond Askew is also great fun as a naive foreighner and his trip to Las Vegas with his friends is one of my favorite scenes in any movie. I mean you have great comedy and a very fun car chase on top of it. Askew gets him and his friends in trouble after he shoots a bouncher in the arm after he gets in trouble for touching a stripper. Taye Diggs shines as one of the friends who likes to brag about being a tantra expert. While Breckin Meyer is also funny as a white kid who claims he's half black.
I love the movie but I'm not as crazy about the Jay Mohr and Scott Wolf scenes. They play two actors who have no choice but to help a strange bi-curious cop "well played by William Fichtner" bust drug dealers. The parts with them are funny but the fact that it follows the fun Las Vegas part makes it seem pretty tame. They aren't as fun as Timothy Olyphant, Desmond Askew or Taye Diggs either. Once Mohr and Wolf aren't with the entertaining Fichtner anymore I almost wished they'd just go away. This is still a fun movie with a lot of young stars giving their best performances ever. Plus it makes me wish Doug Liman would make a movie bringing this cast back together. That's how much I loved it. I also wish Doug Liman could make a movie every week if it was possible lol.
Movie Review: Rave un2 The Joy Fantastic
Summary: 5 Stars
Normally I would give "Go" 4 stars, but since I am in it as a movie extra during the rave scene, it gets 5 stars. God it was so long ago since I worked on this, when I was young and still able to do raves. I remember after filming the last rave scene, we wrapped at 6 in the morning at the Santa Monica airport. I had to be at Paramount Studios to film a tv pilot the same morning. I slept in my car for 1/2 an hour and worked the rest of the day exhausted. My memories of the making of "Go". I just remember how magical it was filming the rave scenes, it was good times, cool music and the energy was fantastic. The scenes are some of the better parts of the movie. "Go" is definately a unique film, it still stands the test of time and holds it's own. The acting is great, I love Timothy Olyphants role the best, he is intense as the drug dealer and hot. I was shocked to see him recently in "Live Free or Die Hard", we're all getting old, I saw his grey hairs. His acting was better in this film, same type of jerk character though. Who would have ever thought Katie Holmes would end up marrying Tom Cruise. She was so young when she did this, I'm sure she didn't have a clue either. This was probably her only good movie role despite all her fortune and fame. Honestly, she is a crap actress and sad that her legacy could be just the "wife" of Mr. Cruise. With all the sidetracking I've done in this review, I hope someone finds it interesting, a little behind the scenes of "Go", my little part of history in the film, just a lowly movie extra dancin' in the background.Movie Review: BEST MOVIE OF 1999
Summary: 5 Stars
Aside from being perfectly cast and acted, wonderfully written, brillianty directed and insanely edited (sorry about all the superlatives)Go is a fantastic movie. Please, spare me the comparrisons to Pulp Fiction, though. While I'm not denying that there are some, I just think it is unfair to burden such an accomplished movie as Go with a "copycat" status. Not only is Go an original movie, it is, dare i say, MORE entertaining than Pulp Fiction. Where in that movie characters needed to express themselves in long, overwrought and ultimatley pretentious monologues, Go let's the characters actions speak for themselves with never a forced line or false moment which makes the movie surprisingly believeable. While that is good, a documentary on the rave scene is probably not what you are looking for. Fear not, Go is first and foremost a wildly entertaining movie that will make you jump, laugh and (at some points) have your jaw hanging near the ground. While some may argue that Go is purely "fluff" with no real plot and no real place in history as a relevant and important piece of filmmaking, I must disagree, because not only is this a fun movie, it is a very greatly made movie that deserves all the acolades it recieves. Doug Liman has crafted a movie that will, in time (if the world is fair), be viewed as a paean to what it was like to be young and desperate during the late 90's. If not, then oh well, because above all, Go is hugely entertaining. And if that is not recomendation enough, then (you knew it was coming) GO see it.Movie Review: Forget The Matrix, Go is the coolest and best movie of 99
Summary: 5 Stars
I have never left a cinema on such a high before. Go is an awesome, awesome movie. It's the kind of teen movie that I wish Hollywood would start making instead of all those by-the-numbers crap like She's all That and Can't Hardly Wait. In fact, no, forget what I just said, if Go's box office is anything to go by, most American teens don't deserve such an amazing movie. The film borrows Pulp Fiction's story-telling arc, intertwining three seemingly seperate stories with such finesse your left gawking at the screen with amazement, loving each second spent with these characters. Also it does this structure in a far more interesting way than Tarantino's classic, with an epilogue that will leave you high and smiling. Cast-wise, Katie Holmes is as radiant as ever, beating out the equally awesome Sarah Polley for the best actress award in this movie. Tim Olyphant does his best work since Scream 2, (he was the only decent thing in Scream 2 outside of Randy's return)playing a character who is by far the most interesting in the entire movie. Just when you think you've got him pegged ... It was also cool to see William Fichtner doing something different from his usual psycho schtick. All in all, go see this movie, and if you're a teenager, treat yourself to the best "teen" movie of the 90's. I can't wait to see what director Doug "Swingers" Liman does next. Forget Tarantino, meet the new king of the indie scene.