Friday, 30 September 2005

Wonderland (2003)

This flick definitely falls into the love-it or hate-it category and I'm afraid I fell in the latter camp.  What we have is Val Kilmer playing the legendary porn star John Holmes once his drug dependency had killed his "career" and his involvement in a messy series of murders in the search for the cash to keep on buying drugs.  That's a pretty downbeat scenario for starters.  Add to that the fact that Val Kilmer, however able an actor he may be, is not that easy to like at the best of times -- and the rest of the somewhat starry cast were equally unlikeable in their roles.  The story is played out from a somewhat "Rashomon" perspective but I frankly didn't care much one way or the other as to the true facts.  I found the film noisy, murky, and generally unappetizing -- which is not really why I enjoy watching movies.

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