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A waste of time
Three friends get together for petty burglary jobs. They are pretty inept. One of them, Anthony (Owen Wilson), just got out of an mental institution but seems much more sane than the manic Dignan (Luke Wilson). Anthony falls in love with a motel maid, Inez.

Personally, I though this was a disconnected movie wih a very slim plot. I didn't care for this at all.

For what it's worth I thought Owen Wilson looked like a young Dennis Hopper with a broken nose in this film. It's the haircut that Wilson has in this film, a crew cut.


Potential to have been a pre- "I heart Huckabees"
Bottle Rocket is about 3 guys' adventure on how they live out part of their lives "making a living" by stealing from others. The movie slowly climaxes, then dives at a different angle to a slow point where the three characters, Anthony, Bob, and Dignan don't talk to each other for about 20 minutes of the movie. This slowness takes away from the humor aspects of the movie because it drags too long. Otherwise the humor before this portion is as charming and crass as watching I Heart Huckabees. The build up of the movie afterward is funny in a weird way, but not too many people would probably think that Michael lusting for almost non-English speaking hotel maid Anita was funny. They might think it was just plain dumb. Brothers Luke and Owen really portray their talented acting as you really feel they are the characters they play. Owen Wilson's character's crazy obsessing with trying to plan crimes as a mastermind, and being very good at it. Luke Wilson's character's as someone who just usually follows his friend Dignan along because he doesn't really know where he's headed in life.

That was Apple Jacks Man
This is the movie that started what we know as the Wilson Brothers Mafia takeover of comedic films. Me, You and Dupree, My Super EX-Girlfriend, Weddingcrashers and Old School wouldn't have had the Wilson brothers, had they never collaborated with co-writer Wes Anderson.
Everyone knows the Wilson brothers from Royal Tennenbaums, but that's not the kind of movie that you can watch over and over again with the jokes getting better. Bottle Rocket was just the beginning of the 25 year plan.

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