Red Rock West
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Movie Reviews of Red Rock West
Movie Review: Dahl's Trilogy - part two
Summary: 4 Stars
One of the three Dahl's "film noir" / "road movie" and possibly the best of all. The other are "Kill Me Again" and "The Last Seduction". In this particular movie, Nicolas Cage and Dennis Hopper have excellent performances and give life to a brilliant script. Not as brilliant as in "Vampire's Kiss" and not as energic as in Lynch's "Wild At Heart", Nicolas Cage has, even though, a great performance as a naive and pure soul and Cage's character comes to be the only who makes his way out of the plot. A lesson of life? Dennis Hopper shows us that even after being on the road as an "Easy Rider" and playing the dark and mysterious "Blue Velvet"'s character, he is still on the run. As in the other two movies which complete Dahl's trilogy, there is a "femme fatale", a certain amount of money, there are men in whom she is only interested because of the cash and there is an unknown end, different at each one of the three movies.Movie Review: Good neo-noir, tries to hard at times.
Summary: 4 Stars
This was an enjoyable example of an often forgotten genre, the film noir. Nicolas Cage gives his best performance (with the exception of leaving las vegas) in this film. Dennis Hopper is especially good, and his entrance in the film is at exactly the right moment.
The plot, with a tavern keeper mistaking a down on his luck drifter for a hired assassin, is clever, intriguing and provides for lots of great moments. The film has plenty of twists, and is suitably dark, depressing, and lacking in hope.
The only problem is Lara Flynn Boyle. She's trying too hard, and it especially comes across as wrong because Cage and Hopper are so smooth and comfortable in their roles. She operates better as a thought in the back of Cage's head then when she is actually on screen.
Still, very well done, though the ending scene cuts out a little abruptly (kind of like the maltese falcon, but way shorter). Worth seeing for those who like noir.
Movie Review: no title
Summary: 4 Stars
I know I would have liked this a whole lot better if practically anyone but Nicholas Cage was the star, but I have to admit, he was very good here. This reminded me so much of the noir "After Dark, My Sweet", except there really isn't any love story. But the small town atmosphere, the drifter caught up, mostly because of a woman, the crazy bad guy, the greed-lust for money, the bedroom scene, are all there in both. This one had far more plot turns and twists, and was almost comic in its relentless violence. It was definitely a film noir, almost all scenes were at night, even in a graveyard. I was definitely caught up in this movie and many of the plot turns took me by surprise. Shot in Wyoming, the scenery was generally stark and bare in the few daylight scenes. Cage was almost a little too good to be true, but maybe not. Maybe I'm just cynical. With Dennis Hopper, J. T. Walsh, and Lara Flyn Boyle.Movie Review: A Must for Nicholas Cage Fans
Summary: 4 Stars
"Red Rock West" is a very, very quirky film, which never steps outside the bounds of hard reality. This is one of my favorite (small) Nicholas Cage films. There are no special effects here. Everything is carried along skillfully with the pure acting talents of its four main characters. Cage gets caught up in a somewhat complicated plot between a married couple who both want to murder each other. Adding to the threatening mayhem is Dennis Hopper who is in top form as a killer-for-hire. Who has the upper-hand at any given moment shifts around, but other than Cage, it's topsy turvey over the motives of the married couple, and exactly what Hopper will settle for. The ending is right on the money. The moral of the story may be that if your a down-on-your-luck drifter passing through Texas, you might want to think twice about any easy jobs that seem to fall into your lap.Movie Review: Modern noir
Summary: 4 Stars
A penniless drifter (Nicholas Cage) becomes trapped in the machinations of greedy, ruthless people when he is mistaken for "Lyle from Texas," a hired killer. He thinks he can take the advance money for a murder, warn the victim (Lara Flynn Boyle), and run, but obviously it doesn't work out as smoothly as that. Director John Dahl co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Rick Dahl, and the two men clearly have a great love for and deep understanding of the genre of film noir. This clever, involving film about people who are in over their heads depends a bit too much on coincidence at a few crucial junctures, but it remains a very entertaining film. Dennis Hopper plays a more restrained version of the psycho he patented in "Blue Velvet," and the great character actor J.T. Walsh delivers a memorable performance.