Go

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Summary: Best Movie Of The Year So Far
Review: This movie is funny, clever, thrilling and is definitely the best movie of 1999 so far. It has amazing performances all around and it's just a great movie. Definitely underrated and overlooked. Check it out as soon as the DVD comes out, which should have some interesting stuff.

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Summary: One of the best
Review: Loved Pulp Fiction? Then you will most likely enjoy a fun-ride called GO, directed by Doug Liman who also did Swingers and is currently attached to direct Bourne Identity with Matt Damon. I went into this movie expecting a typical teen comedy but I walked with my jaw dropped. I could not remember the last time I have seen a movie that was this much fun. This flick is pure example of how much fun a story can be. An intelligent, balls-out entertainment for everyone who enjoys fun movies. Most people tend to praise movies with a 'message', Go has no 'real' message but it does show how much fun something can be. Most people will try to live this story out on their own because it's just that good. Everyone, in some weird way, would love to experience what these bunch of people experienced in this movie. Comedy, sex, guns.. I can go and on.. but who can forget this fun cast who made the movie oh-so-memorable.

Here we have three separate stories that take place the same day/night. It's one of those things that shows you that everyone you meet has a story to their name, and what fun stories do these character have! First up we have Ronna Martin (Sarah Polley) who goes a bit too far and tries to screw a local drug dealer over, we all know how those stories end up but you'll never guess what turn this one takes. Ronna is a work related friend to Simon Baines (Demons Askew), a (...) British dude who just so happens to be friends with the drug dealer who is out to find Ronna. Simon decides to take some vacation time to Vegas with his buddies Marscus (Taye Diggs), Singh (James Duval) and Tiny (Breckin Mayer). Next up we have the third story that just barely fits into the loop. A story of Adam (Scott Wolf) and Zack (Jay Mohr), two guys who have been busted by a cop named Burke (William Fichtner) for a drug possession. Adam and Zack just so happen' to be friends with Simon, who use to hook them up with the right stuff thru the drug dealer Todd (Timothy Olaphant) who just so happens to be out to find Ronna who screwed him over. See how much fun this sounds like? Well, it is. I have seen this movie over thirty times and I am yet to get bored with it, every time I watch it, I get more and more entertained. It is just that much fun!

Go reminded me why I love movies so much, the fact that I can sit down and watch this movie over and over and not get bored. We rarely find movies such as this and it would be shame for any movie fan not to see it because it is a real treat. Older folks will not be drawn to this movie one bit because this movie will simply give them fuel for their fire. An excuse to rip the younger generations apart, so to say. However I will go as far as to say that if this movie was ever brought back to the big screen, I would definitely go back and see it again.

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Summary: Go - DVD plus Music Videos
Review: I did not like the movie because it contained unecesary vulgarity, profanity, and nudity. It did not add anything to the movie. However it was not the worst movie in human history it just had alot of stuff that it didn't need. I bought the DVD for the music videos, so I guess I'm predesposed to not be the biggest fan of the movie anyway. The movie is available in full screen and widescreen (its the same disc, you get to choose in the DVD menu) The music videos are:
"New" by No Doubt
"Magic Carpet Ride" by Philip Steir, featuring Steppenwolf
"Steal My Sunshine" by LEN

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Summary: "Xiang Kai-Chek. Famous Chinese ruler. Starts with 'X.'"
Review: "Go" is most assuredly an oddity. I remember a review for "Go" back in '99 that states something like, "'Go' is a much better film than it has any right to be." My feelings exactly.

The mark of a good director is being able to construct a good film translated from good script material. However, Doug ("Swingers") Liman's sophomore effort ably demonstrates that with style, intuition, and -- above all -- energy, he can craft a magnificent film from shoddy script material. In Hollywood lingo, this is damn near impossible to accomplish. So, thanks to Liman for smashing that preconception.

EVERYONE that reviews this mentions "Pulp Fiction" for obvious reasons, so I'll be no different. Yeah, it owes a lot to it. But PF owes big debts to other films, as well. Don't look at this as derivatives of derivatives, although some films definitely are. Try to view "Go" as something more cunning and sneaky than one might first think. First of all, attempting to find depth, soul, and social philosophy inside a movie entitled "Go" seems like a moot point to begin with. So roll with me here. That title itself should suggest that it's less likely to offer humane insight and is more concerned with feeling, sensations, adrenaline -- all of which wrap around the present moment: RIGHT NOW. This here is "Go"'s priority. And it's executed to exhilirating effect.

The stories go:
RONNA - needs extra shifts at her grocery store in order to make rent money this month. She takes amateur drug-dealer Simon's shift after a 14-hour stint, so he can go to Vegas with his buddies. But Zack and Adam (Jay Mohr and Scott Wolf), two soap opera actors, come calling on Simon but hook up Ecstacy through Ronna (Sara Polley) instead, Ronna dealing in hopes of closing that rent gap. She needs to get pills from Todd Gaines (Timothy Olyphant), but she leaves her friend and coworker Claire (cutie-pie Katie Holmes) with Todd as collateral while she goes off to deal with Adam and Zack. Ronna's "sale" goes dead-wrong, the stash gets flushed, so she opts for selling naive ravers allergy medicine and chewable aspirin to make up the difference, stalling Todd long enough not to find out. But he does. Complications ensue.

SIMON - begs Ronna to cover his shift at the "SONS" grocery store, and she accepts. He wakes up in a trunk, on the road to Vegas, and later acquires the location of a rowdy strip club from Todd over the phone (this phone conversation is the chief link between the first two stories). Simon (Desmond Askew) and pal Marcus (Taye Diggs) leave their gutter-butt friends in the room while they scope out this "Crazy Horse". A lap dance and a gunshot later, and the four guys have two pissed-off bouncers on their heels. Complications ensue.

ADAM & ZACK - are in trouble. Legal trouble, apparently a charge of possession. They decide to play ball and assist undercover Officer Burke (a disconcertingly funny William Fichtner) in busting Simon to clear their record, but Simon's in Vegas. They arrange a deal at the store later with Ronna, and setup the sting house, Burke being the principle dealmaker. At the deal, Ronna senses she's been had after a remark about orange juice, and Zack clues her to book out of there. The stash gets flushed, Ronna bullies her way out of there with a beer they offered her (she's only 17), and the "sale" ends. But Zack and Adam are NOT out of the woods yet. Though they've done what they were instructed, Burke has ulterior motives for the two and invites them over for an early Christmas dinner. Do they really have a choice? Complications (yes, that's right) ensue.

As long and arbitrary as those descriptions are, that is not even a half of what happens in the movie. All the surprises and shocks I left out, but there are many. The timeline jumping and reworking irks QT fans, but that trick's been employed since at least the '50s, so gripe elsewhere. "Go" illustrates how Generation Y (man, I hate these vague labels) is not about planning for the future, but trying to survive this very second. Liman's immediate and flashy camerawork (accompanied by "Traffic" Oscar-winner Stephen Mirrione's gifted editing) accurately captures those sheer moments of frenzy. Rent, sex, drugs, street justice -- all these are the impetuses to shoot the characters through this rollicking 24 hours across Los Angeles and Las Vegas just days before Christmas, and Doug Liman can handle these two Dystopias better than anyone out there, see "Swingers".

But "Go" is no "Swingers". It's darker and edgier, much racier -- a thrilling danger zone in which the viewer doesn't expect a stop in the action, and there isn't one. Though I saw "Go" twice in theaters 5 years ago, I could never pinpoint exactly what was the Main Attraction for me. 5 years later and wiser, maybe I figured it out. There is such earnestness and attitude, especially from the near-flawless ensemble of actors, in Liman's guidance that I conceive of him directing the film as if he were sitting three seats down in that dark auditorium watching the story unfold for the first time, right along with us.

This is a movie I should be discrediting for its lack of substance (even though it's mainly about ingesting substances), but I'm not. "Go" is just too damn fun: guilty-pleasure filmmaking of the highest order. Sleek, funny, sexy, shot full of vitality, don't ever hesitate to "Go" for broke.


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Summary: Go - Get it!
Review: It is an old technique to link three stories under a similar theme and tie them together in the one film. It was done in memorable films such as Neil Simons "Plaza Suite" and in "The Yellow Rolls Royce".

Here, the technique is souped and hyped up to modern fast lane speed.
Story one is the tale of Ronna, the rude shop clerk facing eviction who is handed the opportunity to sell drugs to get herself out of debt. But she finds herself set up in a police sting, and then has to double cross the drug dealer to stay solvent. One bad move begets another and she ends up in a carpark at night having her live saved by being run over by a car. Sounds incredible, but it works brilliantly. This part of the movie owes a lot to Pulp Fiction and True Romance.

Story two is Ronnas drug dealing english buddy on his trip to Vegas. He loses his money, scores with two bridesmaids, burns down the hotel room, steals a car with his buddy, goes to a strip joint, shoots the pimp and has to exit Vegas in a high speed car chase to avoid being shot himself. Unbelievable? But it works. This section of the movie pays homage to college/road movies such as American Pie, Planes Trains and Automobiles and Road Trip.

Story three is the gay TV detective stars forced into a police sting to clear a drugs charge. Their day descend into consumer hell when they find the only way to clear their rapsheet is to sign up an "Amway" style franchise with the detective. They kill Ronna in the carpark, but then come back to save her, and perversely do the right thing for all the wrong reasons. This is the most surreal part of the movie, replete with dangerous sexual situations that cannot be consumated.

Backed up by a sizzling sound track, full of excellent jokes and side-splitting situations, this is a really good black comedy. Top viewing! I can't understand why it never screened in Europe. Oh I do! It is all very black, and very adult and probably bombed in the USA.

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Summary: Good to "GO"
Review: Despite what others might think,and putting aside the teen pubescent infactuations with the female&maybe some of the male stars in this film,"Go" does at first kind of have that Mtv feel.The few Mtv films made all sucked,I can't remember one being worth renting,or wasting 2hrs. on regular cable to watch.However,Go is well orchestrated,and stays away from the lame high school/frat clich'e plots&storylines Mtv produced.The three seperate storylines of Go all converging into one and influencing the other along the way keeps your interest through the film down to the ending credits.Kinda makes you wonder about the whole "butterfly" flaps it's wings in New York thing,and if in fact all that happens on the planet is interconnected?Go has a great soundtrack,I never thought I would like it&ended up buying it.I'm not into clubbing,the club scene,or clubbing culture.The movie does'nt exactly glamorize drug use,but you will see it in the film in small bits.The film is'nt about using drugs where some people might be convinced otherwise.The performances were all good,and there are quite a few funny scenes in it,like the guy frying on "E" while telepathically comunicating with a cat that tells him he will die.Its a great film,and well worth watching even if you don't buy it.

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Summary: GO C IT!
Review: A little gem of a movie, an excellent follow-up (but not sequel) to the fantastic "Swingers".

Sarah Polley is worth the price of admission alone, for her excellent performance. She is supported by an equally excellent cast including Taye Diggs, Scott Wolf, Katie Holmes, Jay Mohr, and Timothy Olyphant - among others.

Many viewed this movie as being an MTV version of Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" and, while this may to an extent me true, it is obviously much more than that; and an excellent stand-alone movie of it's own.

Split into 3 separate storylines which clash and collide along the way, finally merging as the movie comes to a close, this movie constantly keeps the viewer on edge; and provides an excellent example of the drug/club etc. scene of the 90's and 00's.

Favourite scene has to be: where the teens in the car (in the first storyline) are convinced they're 'going up', as they believe they're on Es - but are really on aspirin and allergy medicine! Fantastic!!!!

Funny, edgy, fast-paced with a sharp script, strong cast, and excellent soundtrack.

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Summary: Tarantino comparisons justified, but a fun, twisted film
Review: Once you get over the Tarantino thing, Go becomes quite a ride of its own. Darkly funny, twisted and at times really sweet, Go makes for a good couple of hours of entertainment. Polley is terrific - her character reminds me more of Griffin Dunne's in After Hours. Holmes is cute, the guy trio on their Vegas jaunt are fine and Fox and Mohr are great together in this. In fact, all the roles are cast quite well. Kind of After Hours meets Pulp Fiction without the pedigree or historical significance.

Rating:
Summary: Good flick
Review: I will have to admit that I almost gave up on this film before it was half over.

I found myself saying, there is no plot, none of the characters are interesting or even likeable and it seems to be going nowhere.

The second half of the film picks up and rewards the viewer with some interesting plot turns and resolutions.

I certainly enjoyed this film once I got to the 2nd half. This film isn't high art but it is certainly worth seeing.

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Summary: Go and live
Review: This movie is pretty sweet. I dig this movie because it is so normal. Although the stories kinda end extravagantly, if you're like me and kinda lived the poor, raver kind of life style if only for awhile, this movie hits home.

The stories are of the same night as seen by differing people. Kind of Tarantinoish, Pulp Fictionish construction to the scenes, It is well worth the entertainment value.

Check it out.