Dan Shor, Dennis Hopper, Dwight Yoakam
When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialise in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situat...( read more
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DVD Release Date: August 10, 1999
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September 25, 2009An interesting and entertaining alternative Modern day western. Good performances from Hopper and the late, great J.T. Walsh.
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March 31, 2009A few years ago I made myself a promise never to see a Nicolas Cage picture again. I don't remember exactly what was the picture that finally did it, but I do remember that I was very thorough about my promise. Yet it seems that I can't resist to watch Dennis Hopper or J. T. Wals...( read more)
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January 29, 2009Early John Dahl effort that made me sit up and take notice. The guy can do noir. Rural noir especially as evidenced by this.
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January 3, 2009Mistaken for a hired killer, drifter Nicolas Cage is offered $5,000 to murder a local bar owner's wife, who in turn offers him $10,000 to return the favour. Planning to just keep the money and skip town, he finds leaving Red Rock is a lot harder than he figured. This heavily Tara...( read more)
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November 16, 2009It's an absolute joy to find a plot so convoluted that almost every scene brings a new surprise and a cry of astonishment. In a perfect world such a complicated mess could be refined into a simple logical chain of events and, to its credit, Red Rock West goes some way towards thi...( read more)
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September 6, 2009Taut, twisting thriller/mystery is like a lost 1990s Coen Brothers movie. 'Blood Simple' seems to be a definite inspiration, from the stark, beautifully photographed smalltown atmosphere to the setup of one man hiring another to kill his wife. And much like that film, nothing g...( read more)
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August 31, 2009Music like you would hear in Wild at Heart. Movie was a suprisingly good. Fun and exciting. I can't believe I have not heard of this.
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