Go

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Summary: Excellent Thrill Ride.
Review: Writer John August and Director Doug Liman did a teffric job in this film with the story, music, locations and actors, of course.

Teffric Performances from every one in this film,Great Cast including-Katie Holmes, Sarah Polley, Desmond Askew, Nathan Bexton, Scott Wolf, Jay Mohr, Timothy Olyphant, Taye Diggs, Breckin Meyer, James Duval, J.E. Freeman, William Fichtner and Jane Krakowski. Actually i name all the lead cast in this film.

DVD include Audio Commentary from the Director and Editor. 14 Deleted Scenes, including the two last Deleted Scenes is a different ending. Three Music Videos. DVD`s has fine anamorphic Widescreen(2.35:1)format and also in Pan & Scan is included. Great Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround. Grade:A. Super 35.

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Summary: GO- Halfway there
Review: Go is a film with a lot of energy, attractive cast, intriguing set-up... and a let-down at the end. With the various characters colliding in humorous and surprising ways throughout the movie's three "chapters," I think a lot of viewers were expecting a big, bang-up climax at the end (like its obvious influence, Pulp Fiction). Hell, given the irresponsible behavior (drug-selling, gun-shooting, hit-and-running, etc.) of most of the characters, even some introspection on someone's part would ben nice. But no. The movie just ends. Much like another indie icon, Spike Lee, Doug Liman paints himself in a corner and just stops the film and rolls the credits.

But like I said, there's a lot to like here. The movie made me wish for a while that I was in my twenties, living hedonistically in LA. Plus we get great performances by Katie Holmes (the first time she's ever impressed me), Sarah Polley (amorality is SO sexy), Timothy Olyphant (ditto), and Taye Diggs (something for the "manistream" audience who missed him in How Stella Got Her Groove Back).

Because the last impression I took from the movie was mild disappointment, I'm not sure if I would buy the DVD, but for anyone who thinks "youth" movies are only as deep as stuff like She's All That, GO should be at least seen.

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Summary: GO is fast but its not that fast
Review: what I thought about this film is the following: good actors, the script is OK and the outcome is alright. Somethings about this movie lack a lot and some might say its a Pulp Fiction-esque type movie and it is in its only little world. Sarah Polley, Katie Holmes and Timothy Olphant were the only ones that did outstanding performances in this movie. the others were average: Jay Mohr, Scott Wolf, William Ficthner, Desmond Askew, Taye Diggs, Breckin Meyer, James DuVal, J.E. Freeman and many others. highlight would have to be all of Sarah Polley's characters story view because she is so damn hot.

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Summary: Rollicking, Fast Paced Good Time Film
Review: Looking for some fun, action, comedy, great performances and interesting story-telling in a film. Grab yourself a copy of this movie, throw it in the DVD/Vidoe player and let yourself "Go". (Sorry, it sounded better in my head.) Okay, bad pun aside, this movie is seriously enjoyable (substituting a bad oxymoron for a bad pun). Starring a young cast of pretty faces, this movie "borrows" from Tarrantino the overlapping/shifting through time device to tell the story of several groups of people and their adventures over a 24 hour period around Christmas. Centering mostly around a drug deal gone awry and a trip to Vegas, the characters are thrown into a wild adventure that will thrill and amuse the viewer throughout.

For the most part, the movie is very good. The story is fast-paced and avoids slowing down, sometimes at the expense of developing characters or plot. And despite the overuse of some already tired modern character devices (haven't we seen enough of the "white guy who thinks he's black" character?) for the most part the movie follows a fairly original path through it's narrative.

The cast is young, pretty and can actually act. Katie Holmes, Sarrah Polley, Desmond Askew, Adrienne Harris, Scott Wolf and Jay Mohr are outstanding as the relative strangers whose lives intertwine over the course of a day's activities.

As for the plot, there is plenty of humor and a wild car chase, so what else do you need to know?

A near great movie, it is definitely worth a watch. Rent it first. You may like it enough to add to your DVD collection.

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Summary: One of my favorites from 1999
Review: The cast of Go doesn't have a lot of star power, and the director is familiar only to people who keep up with independent films. He directed the critically acclaimed Swingers in 1996. The cover art for the video box is atrocious. If you are over 25, you are not apt to have heard of the artists who make the music for the soundtrack. And in a period where the shallow reigns at the boxoffice, this movie was not a hit. Don't worry about these things. Go is the hippest, hottest, funniest and most unflinchingly honest American movie about young people since Fast Times at Ridgemont High. In fact, it's much better, and it takes place nowhere near an institution of higher learning.

The movie begins normally enough. The fanfare music plays, and there's the statue of the lady with the torch, which tells is this is a Columbia Picture. Suddenly, the studio music is cut off by lively rock and roll. We are suddenly in the midst of a huge rave party. The credits quickly roll, and we are whisked off to a supermarket, the kind where today's kids unhappily toil in order to get the money to pay for their fun, which is lot more expensive than the fun their parents had.

We see young Ronna [Sarah Polley] waiting on a customer in the check out line. She's the kind of customer who quickly puts the work ethic on shaky ground. Then Ronna goes to clock out. Her friend, Claire [Katie Holmes], advises coworker, Simon [Desmon Askew], that this is not a good time for him to ask Ronna for a favor. He doesn't listen. You need to pay close attention to this scene, because it is repeated twice later in the movie and is critical to the densely woven plot.

I don't want to give away much of the story, because it's one of the delights of Go. The plot is not complex, but it unfolds in such a clever way that, if you blink, you miss something. I will say only that it revolves around a drug deal gone wrong and that it is told from three different viewpoints.

The young cast is far from being world famous, but it's a sure bet that some of the actors will be one day soon. The Canadian Sarah Polley is an awesome talent. Taye Diggs, who played Angela Bassett's young lover in How Stella Got Her Groove Back, is hysterical as Marcus, a bright but somewhat too impulsive hustler. Equally amusing is Desmon Askew, whose character, Simon, does bad things because he is too clueless to know the difference between right and wrong. All of the players are first-rate. I think we have in Doug Liman a true directorial talent. The mark of a great director is the ability to elicit from actors performances that are several cuts above what they normally give. They make even ordinary actors shine.

Go is a very modern movie. It uses all the techniques people learn while working on commercials and music videos. Liman uses them wisely. All the quick cuts and odd camera angles are in perfect synch with the style and subject matter of the film. Too often, such tricks are used to mask the fact that a movie is all style and no substance. Here we have both elements in equal parts.

This is a movie for people who either are or who yearn to be free spirited and open-minded. It is certainly not for the judgmental or the self-righteous. It's subject matter may be on the wrong side of the tracks, and it may not send the politically correct messages we insist our kids should see and hear today - as of they were incapable of forming their own opinions. But its heart is in the right place, it is very funny, and it rarely treats its characters unkindly. That's more than can be said of many so-called uplifting Hollywood pictures which are ultimately hollow and empty.

There are so many memorable moments in Go that some of them are still playing in my head. The movie is full of memorable characters, most of which you wouldn't bring home to met Mom. Still, in a way that only the magic of movies can do, they are a lovable bunch of rascals. I am sure I will see them again several times.

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Summary: Strange, dizzying, at times extremely funny.
Review: Narratively akin to Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction in its freewheeling, character-based structure, Go taps into a much funnier, less savage vein with a group of truly oddball characters and a plot that's less a plot than a paratactical series of events.

Sarah Polley wins this one hands down as the strongest protagonist of the bunch. Edgy, deliciously bitchy at times, and purposeful, her Ronna kicks off the movie with a bang. A breathless trek through her desperate 11th-hour attempt to make rent money gives this movie a relentless rhythm perfectly suited to director Doug Liman's cinematic techniques. This section also introduces the characters at their best: Katie Holmes' wonderfully oddball Claire; Timothy Olyphant as the dangerous and charming Todd Gaines. Easily the best section in this multiple-narrative movie, Ronna's sets the bar very high for the rest of the film.

Too bad the middle two sections meander way too much to the point of almost losing narrative drive altogether. Once Simon and his buddies hit Las Vegas, the pace slows down, dialogue gets multiplied disconcertingly, and events lose the kinetic energy of the drug-deal section. Personally I had a limited tolerance for Simon's silly exploits, best shown in the strip-club sequence. It's not much fun to watch a protagonist (and in his section, Simon is) who's constantly babbling with little motivation other than the most basic impulses.

The "Adam and Zack" section is even worse. Though it's nice to see the Ronna set-up from the other side, this section is the most languishing in the movie. A drop-dead boring dinner scene with flickers of comedy, and then the watery, dewy-eyed but completely uninteresting Scott Wolf comes along as pretty-boy actor Adam, ruining the irresistibly tough attitude of the movie. Jay Mohr fares much better as wishy-washy but proactive sidekick Zack, and he's the one who succeeds in driving the action somewhat in this section. Overall, however, the "Adam and Zack" section is like one long, not-so-exciting sitcom episode.

The final section, thankfully, rediscovers the engine of the movie when Claire re-enters the scene. Katie Holmes' interactions with Olyphant (who does a marvellous 180-degree turn to become a starry-eyed macho specimen in this segment) are priceless, and it's here that the funniest bits of the movie emerge: Claire screaming at the club guys looking to kill Simon (Holmes' final reaction shot in this sequence is hilarious); Ronna re-entering the movie (with a limp, no less) and discovering what she'd forgotten amidst all the mayhem; Manny's re-entrance.

One star off for those shaky middle points aforementioned. But the comic jewels we pick up along the way, in the beginning and at the end are well worth suffering through the weaker moments.

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Summary: Sarah's a babe... mmmmmmm
Review: This dvd is worth buying just to fantisize about Sarah... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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Summary: Great Film
Review: No repeats of other reviews here only to say that this is a good, funny, fast paced film; however, it should be noted that during the beginning of the film where there's a contest to name dead actors, that there is a blaring error: Omar Sharif is very much alive at this writing!
Enjoy!

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Summary: Good, Solid Crime/Drug Comedy
Review: I rented this film not expecting much, but to my surprise I really enjoyed it. It has some pretty funny moments, and I enjoy it's semi-dark-ish humour. Jay Mohr and Scott Wolf play two gay lovers, which sort of threw me off guard, and Taye Diggs plays a great role as well. I reccomend this film to anyone who enjoys such films as, 'Snatch', 'Pulp Fiction', 'Spun', and what not. It is a story that takes place in 24 hrs. and switches between three diff. character groups. Great directorial work, and decent acting. Could of been a little better, but it was good overall.

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Summary: Nicely Original, But Lacks "Oomph."
Review: "Go" is a somewhat interesting comedy that borrows its roots from the likes of Tarantino, though to compare these two directors does a disservice to Quentin. While the plotline is fractured in "Go" and we get to examine a story from several different angles (only to watch them come crashing together in the finale), I was bored by the way the director spliced it. Instead of watching all of these plotlines intertwine throughout the whole film (leaving the audience on the edge of their seat trying to piece things together), this film lets you watch each scene in its entirety before switching to a new view.

I was expecting "Go" to be edgier and unpredictable, like a Tarantino film. However, nothing that twisted happens in the film and it is definitely lighter than either "Pulp Fiction" or "Reservoir Dogs." None of the dialogue really moves in this film, besides the hilarious antics of the sting cop.

While "Go" is original and interesting to watch, I think it could have been made better with a bit more fracturing of the time sequences. All in all, however, it's worth a look-particularly if you like edgier films such as "Pulp Fiction" and "Reservoir Dogs."