So... why is this hated (curious i havent seen it)

I like to watch it, but its so cheesy!

You can tell Kilmer doesnt want to be there. Terrible green screen. Amature directing and cinimetography. It gets very cheap and they try to make it bigger than it is. The story is STV *beep* Oh and how could I forget Jose.

He sells oranges for money.

I enjoyed the film overall, but I can easily understand why it's not so well-liked. The story has almost a stream-of-consciousness quality to it. It's also fairly complicated so that you have to pay very close attention to everything, and many things won't make much sense until a bit later (often small things--like "why was that guy standing there in the middle of nowhere and Christian Slater's character didn't acknowledge him?"), so a viewer spends some time trying to figure things out that probably should have been explained better. It also has some very low-budget qualities, like the very amateurish green screen mentioned above. It occasionally feels more like a "Z movie" than the B movie that it is. But the cast is great, the story is very entertaining overall if you don't sweat some messy details, there are a few pretty well-done action scenes that I didn't expect, and it also has "black comedy" elements that you'll dig if you like black comedies at all. It's actually a bit Coen Brothers-like, but I'm hesitant to say that, because basically, it's worth a shot only as long as you make sure you go in with absolutely no expectations.

I actually gave it an 8/10. It helped that I'm a big fan of some of the cast, though, including both Christian Slater and William Forsythe, who unfortunately wasn't in it as long as I would have liked, but as someone who often functions as a character actor, that's not unusual for him.


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