1997 80's movie
Rating: 11/20
Plot: Professional assassin John Cusack takes a job in his old hometown. His homecoming is ruined when somebody keeps trying to kill him. But that's not the worst of it; his high school reunion is also going on. Oh, snap!
I don't like John Cusack. The ghost of Gene Siskel, however, is a fan. I don't like Dan Aykroyd either. I just read somewhere that he's got webbed feet, but I disliked him long before I knew about that. I really don't want to write about this movie. I didn't like it. More interesting to me were the goings-on at the dumpiest motel in Indianapolis the night that I watched this movie, a full moon and sinewy clouds. I think I had a sweatshirt with me that night. And I broke my record for prostitutes that night, chasing seven from the premises. One of them told me--after I watched her leave one truck in one truck parking lot, walk to the neighboring Waffle House to clean herself up, and then leave the restaurant and head toward our truck parking lot--that she was looking for a band-aid. And when I approached a truck driver who was illegally parked in our lot, I could see clearly through the flaps that separated his bunk from the rest of his truck that he was watching some pornography. I was so exhausted after watching John Cusack and a bunch of commercials for two hours that I fell asleep right there on the urine couch until Charles, the maintenance man/shuttle driver came in at around five in the morning because he thought there might be some doughnuts. Unfortunately for Charles, there weren't any doughnuts because the guy who was supposed to put them out and make the coffee was sleeping on the couch, spooning with the ghost of Gene Siskel and having a dream about having his way with a totum pole.
3 comments:
I enjoyed this movie. I have never been a huge Cusack fan, but his chemistry with Minnie Driver in this film was great.
It was a nice piece of fluff that I was entertained by all the way through.
I give it a 16........so there.
A little hard to buy Cusack (whom I always like, by the way) as a badass, but the film is an entertaining black comedy. A 15.
I like Cusack. I was deep in the throes of high school angst when “Say Anything…” came out on video, so we go way back.
I think he does his best stuff when supported by a STRONG supporting cast. Things like High Fidelity, Pushing Tin, Malkovich (which I spelled correctly on first try, bitches), and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. , He’s almost always “John Cusack playing who ever this guy is,” but I like that guy. That thing works well in a group that he can play off of, when they can play back.
They don’t seem to be able play back in “Blank,” but it could be the script. It seems like it takes forever for nothing to happen.
I can also note that the movie did not improve in multiple viewings. It seems to be one of those movies that I flip to on cable, watch for about twenty minutes, then think, “Oh yeah, this isn’t very good.”
13/20
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