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Summary: A dark and surreal classic
Review: A delightfully original movie that works as a surreal gangster movie and as a bizzare homage to the Rat-Pack. Larry Bishop's direction and script manages to wonderfully revitalise the Film-Noir. Goldblum is a little to much of what we expect in the lead, but Dreyfuss and the rest of the cast excell. However, it is Gabriel Byrne who REALLY steals the movie. He provides us with one of the best death scenes in movie history, as well as a classic version of "My Way".
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Summary: Vic,Mick and Nick= a sick, slick flick!
Review: I accidently caught this on TV and couldn't beleive what I was seeing. All these A-list actors in one of the most bizzarro black comedies I've ever seen yet never heard of. I laughed, I cried...no, I didn't. But the wordplay, the silly references, the posh costumes, the retro B-movie feel of it all. I really enjoyed this film, bloodbaths and all. It was just enjoyable. Some rare movies make nary a ripple but you catch them once and then want to buy the video: Being There,Brazil,Buckaroo Bonzai,Army of Darkness,The Adventures of Baron Munchausen...Mad Dog Time fits the genre of odd movies you can't look away from. Try it.
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Summary: Strange Gems
Review: I happen to like MAD DOG TIME (or TRIGGER HAPPY as I first knew it) very much indeed, but I like a great many strange and flawed films.
It seems to me that the makers of this film are poking fun at both the harmless gangsters of GUYS AND DOLLS and ROBIN AND THE SEVEN HOODS, and at the High Seriousness of THE GODFATHER and its progeny. I know of only one Gangster film that surpasses it in outright weirdness - ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA - and the only one that is more darkly comic is GOODFELLAS, which most people treat as serious drama.
If you ever scoffed at the good hearted gangsters of the '50's and 60's musicals, or laughed at the pretensiousness of 70's and 80's gangster noir, you may like this film a lot. Or you may hate it. It is a very peculiar vision, and not to all tastes. But don't dismiss it without a look. There will probably never be another film anything like it.
Rating: 
Summary: BAD=Mad Dog Time Movie
Review: I have not watched this movie, I fast forward
it until I came across Christopher Jones' part.
I have it stopped on his part and I watch it
once in a while. I do not care for any of the
actors in this movie, except Christopher Jones.
He hasn't been in a movie for several years, and
I wanted to see how he was, and HE STILL HAS IT!
Rating:
Summary: Expensive but great - five stars!!!
Review: I like this film very much. I only know the german version, and I expected to get the original version here, but unfortunately it is not quite cheap, so I'll have to wait for a special offer...
Rating:
Summary: Smash Hit!
Review: I love how the characters play out roles that exemplify their philosophies of life. The humor is dark and cynical, yet grounded in realism. The script was well thought out and the actors wisely chosen. Sophisticated enough for multiple viewings, and definitely worth buying.
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Summary: TERRIBLE, BUT WONDERFUL
Review: I love this film! Confused? It's absolutely appalling, yet I love it! Understand? These are the worst performances I have ever seen put on film. Billy Drago looks completely baffled, Gregory Heinz thinks he's in a good film, Henry Silva destroys the screen image he cultivated over the last 40 years, Billy Idol makes Sting and David Bowie look like Tracy and Hepburn, Kyle MacLachlan buries his career once and for all, Dreyfuss tries his best, Ellen Barkin needn't have bothered and what bad film would be complete without an inane performance from Burt Reynolds (he's put in better work in adverts).What was that you said? What about the stars? Jeff Goldblum grins like an idiot and stares into the distance in surely his best/worst role of all time (and that covers alot of ground). But no-one, AND I MEAN NO-ONE, has ever given a performance quite like that of Gabriel Byrne in this film. He redefines bad acting. Listen to him play the drunken Irish lech as he slurrrrs " Those Everly sisters, DER SUM WOMEN! ". Gasp in astonishment at his interplay with Golblum, who never seems to be listening to anyone when they speak. And best of all, watch the star of MILLERS CROSSING, DEFENCE OF THE REALM, EXCALIBUR and THE USUAL SUSPECTS give the world the DEFINITIVE interpretation of Sinatra's MY WAY. I won't spoil it for you, if it doesn't reduce you to tears of laughter I feel sorry for you. You can tell that Byrne is playing it tongue in cheek but I wonder if he fully comprehended the staggering implications of this performance to his profession. Truly a work of art that will, to paraphrase Kevin Spacey in SEVEN, "Be studied and studied forever". However, once Byrne is gone (about two-thirds of the way through) you begin to realise just how bad everything else about it is. So boring, so empty, so poor an excuse (if one was needed) to play all those Rat Pack songs one more time. The bottom line is: See this unbelievable film at least once. Forget that. At this price JUST BUY IT! It will change your world, blow your mind..... IT'S TERRIBLE, YET WONDERFUL. Understand? I love it.
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Summary: I love Mad Dog Time, me.
Review: I loved Mad Dog Time, except I had to fast forward through all the scenes with Christopher Jones in. Apparently he's not done any movies for a long time, and it's just my rotten luck that he chose to appear in this one, momentarily ruining what is an otherwise excellent movie.
Rating:
Summary: One of the Worst
Review: I only bought the movie to see Christopher Jones. Once he got killed off, I turned the video off. I never did finish it. Maybe one of these days when I have absolutely nothing else to do.... CJ said he only did the film as a favor to Bishop. I bet he wishes he hadn't. Bishop looked creepy to me in Wild in the Streets; so somehow I'm not surprised he'd produce something like that. We know why Chris did it, but how did he talk the others into it? Big mystery!
Rating:
Summary: One of the Worst
Review: I only bought the movie to see Christopher Jones. Once he got killed off, I turned the video off. I never did finish it. Maybe one of these days when I have absolutely nothing else to do.... CJ said he only did the film as a favor to Bishop. I bet he wishes he hadn't. Bishop looked creepy to me in Wild in the Streets; so somehow I'm not surprised he'd produce something like that. We know why Chris did it, but how did he talk the others into it? Big mystery!
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