Val Kilmer, Deborah Kara Unger, Vincent D'Onofrio
After his wife is murdered, a man drifts into a world populated by thugs and speed junkies.
DVD Release Date: September 10, 2002
Stats: 1,134 reviews
Val Kilmer playing the trumpet with fire on the background, in sloooow motion, can't sustain an entire movie. The cast is good and could have been used for something way better.
A dire piece of filmmaking. It seems as though Caruso has found his true calling in films for the teenage market, as this has immaturity written all over it. Like some dark teen boy's view of the world, crime and cops after watching too many modern Noir's. Kilmer doesn't convince...( read more)
"If You're Looking For The Truth, You've Come To The Wrong Place."
After his wife is murdered, a man drifts into a world populated by thugs and speed junkies.
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Good depiction of the ...( read more)
Danny: So that's where I found myself. No, I should choose my words more wisely. This is the world I sought out. The land of the perpetual night party. Day swallowing night and night swallowing day. The crank compressing time like some defying piston on its awesome downstroke. We...( read more)
Simply amazing. The story is captivating and compelling, the performances are powerful, the directing is silently brilliant. A movie that goes off like a firework.
It's my favorite Val Kilmer performance and the visuals and score are memesrzing. Caruso here keeps things in order by allowing the two worlds, that of "Denny" and that of "Tom Van Allen" to each have a seperate palette (sp?). I honestly do consider this a masterpiece of modern n...( read more)
Really great. The plot is really smart, just when you think you know what's going on, it flips around completely. Val Kilmer was amazing, I haven't seen him give a performance like this since his Jim Morrison. DJ Caruso is great at giving these really personal stories that, under...( read more)
Wild flic. Requiem for a Dream surpasses this one in feelings of drudgery but this keeps pace with it for the first half. recommended
great movie on drug culture very hard to describe, seems to lack direction at the start however gains it fast. definitly worth a watch
Incredible. This movie is far too intricate to give a brief description of it. At first, it seems a bit directionless, but is enjoyable nevertheless, then, as quickly as the wind changes direction, the twists and turns hit the viewer, one after the other until the incredibly swee...( read more)
Director D. J. Caruso brings a visual flair to the proceedings, and Tony Gayton ... shows a deft appreciation of the genre, as The Salton Sea twists, turns and twists again. full review
All the movie's narrative gymnastics can't disguise the fact that it's inauthentic at its core and that its story just isn't worth telling. full review
[D'Onofrio is] the fire in the belly of this cool groove of a movie. full review
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