Directed by:
Skip WoodsScreenplay:
Skip WoodsCinematography:
Denis LenoirCast:
Thomas Jane, Aaron Eckhart, Pavlína Pořízková, James Le Gros, Paula Marshall, Michael Jeter, Glenn Plummer, Mickey Rourke, Michael D. Olmos, Gary Dourdan (more)Plots(1)
A former L.A. drug dealer has moved to Houston to make a new life for himself as a married architect. Everything falls apart when he is suddenly visited by one of his former cohorts who comes carrying heroin. Discovering the dope, the architect flushes it down the drain. This sets up a series of tough customers seeking the dope including a Rasta hit-man, an ex-lover Dallas who ties him up and rapes him, a criminal called Billy with a penchant for torture, and a rogue cop. (official distributor synopsis)
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The obvious inspiration from Tarantino's early works, especially his cult film Pulp Fiction, cannot be overlooked. The lack of originality in style and subject matter wouldn't be a problem if Skip Woods could work with characters and develop the screenplay just as cleverly. Tarantino became a cult figure precisely because he was able to elevate trashy motifs to a higher qualitative level and give them a coat that wouldn't insult aesthetes and intellectuals. Woods, although engaging some first-class killers, psychopaths, and crazy characters in his action-packed film, endowing them with a cool image and cynical lines, is evidently doing it for its own sake. The characters are only sketched out and the screenplay is unfinished. Since then, Woods hasn't even made a mark as a director, which speaks about the true quality of his film. Overall impression: 50%.
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