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Release Date: 02 October, 2001 Retail Price: $14.95 OUR Price: $12.99 You SAVE: $1.96! Cast: Complete Cast (10 total) |
Kansas Reviews
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I bought this with having no idea what this movie would look like on dvd. Having it on laserdisk for many years, I knew it was a tough looking movie video wise, and being from 1988 and low budget I expected this to look grainy and such. Well, when I popped it in my dvd player I was surprised by how nice it looked transfered onto dvd. There wasn't the grain you would expect. The colors and flesh tones where on. No edge enhancements. The movie was a bit soft, but that was probably due to the studio transfering it onto dvd due to the age and grain that would probably be noticable. This has a nice wide 2:35 aspect that makes the scenery look beautiful. Not stunning like some of todays solid transfers, but for its age and low budget its what makes dvd shine at its best. Overall...great!
"I get high doing the unthinkable."
Even after watching this flop, my respect for actor Matt Dillon remains the same. This movie is just furthur proof that virtually all of todays top actors and actresses had a few clunkers in the early years of their career.
Matt Dillon plays Doyle Kennedy, a troubled drifter with a criminal mind who helps a naive young man, Wade Corey (played by Andrew McCarthy), hop a train. What begins as friendship turns into a criminal partnership as Doyle practically forces Wade to help him rob a bank. When they split up after the robbery, Wade saves the governor's daughter from drowning (how touching). Then he gets a job working on a farm where he falls for the farmer's innocent daughter. He tries to forget his past, but Doyle has no plans to dissolve their "partnership" and becomes increasingly psychotic. I won't spoil the ending, but I think you can guess the outcome.
So where did the director go wrong? The predictable, overblown plot, lame script, and annoying music, for starters. Even by 1988 the "psychotic drifter" genre was totally exhausted, and this movie is so unoriginal it's laughable. The cast, especially Matt Dillon, deserved much better than this uneven, overlong mess. Avoid at all costs!!!
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