Call me crazy, but tell me if you’ll find a better example of a movie being “so bad it is good.” The entire enterprise is just so over the top, so relentlessly violent and stupid and sleazy that I can not help but have a deep, abiding respect. This is a nasty film filled with nothing but negativity – a film where Morton Downey Jr. fills in for moral indignity. Danny Glover, who sometimes chooses to be an absolutely awful actor, plays every scene LOUDER THAN AL PACINO in an insane, coked-up fury of vulgar cliche. Bill Paxton/Pullman is doing his usual crap, too, making each scene feel like a parody of itself. I can not tell a lie – it is all quite amusing.
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Jordan Hoffman is a New York-based writer and film critic working for The Guardian, Vanity Fair, Thrillist, Times of Israel, NY Daily News and elsewhere.
He is the host of ENGAGE: The Official Star Trek Podcast, a member of the New York Film Critics Circle and challenges you to a game of backgammon.