Go

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Summary: Never judge a DVD by its cover!
Review: I'd seen this movie around for ages but I never gave it a chance coz of one thing... somebody from Dawsons Creek was on the front! Out of pure boredom I decided to read a review anyway, just to find out how bad it was gonna be. First I looked at the rating, 5 out of 5!! Unbelievably it sounded like a really decent film so I rented it and boy was I pleasantly surprised! Go is a fast paced Comedy/Drama based on one story told from three angles. The first is one girls adventure to try and score some rent money by doing a first time drug deal with a menacing drug dealer. Meanwhile two soap opera actors have been busted for drugs and are helping the cops bust their dealer who is actually away in Las Vegas! The film opens with lots of quick shots at a rave, with Katie Holmes rambling on as if shes on all kinds of drugs - this was something I wasn't expecting, that good girl from Dawsons Creek completely out of it! We then move to a super market and meet one of the main characters Ronna (a superb Sarah Polley) Shes desperate for rent money the day before she is set to be evicted, and so hastley agrees to cover Simons (Desmond Askew) shift so that he can party in Vegas. Two guys arrive at her checkout wondering if she could sort them out for a party that they are going to. With money on the brain she accepts and takes Claire (Holmes) and Mani (Nathan Bexton) on a mission around LA to score some E. The nice thing about this film is that the three stories manage to connect really smoothly and not much brain power is needed. The cast are fantastic, all giving something to make this film very special. I now have changed my mind on that girl from Dawsons Creek and will now continue to call her Katie Holmes and will sometimes even tolerate Dawsons Creek. If you're gonna buy this, I recommend the DVD, its packed with loadsa goodies including an interesting Making of feature and 14 deleted scenes.

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Summary: Sustaining Yet Nothing You Haven't Seen Before
Review: If you see this film because it's brought to you by the ones who gave us "Swingers", you may be a wee disappointed. I wouldn't go as far as claiming that Go is unoriginal since it's arguable that most films in this day & age are not. If anything, Go is a likeable film including a young yet unthreatening cast & enough of a mix of characters to keep the film entertaining.

Go will sustain you & you'll enjoy it for what it presents: interrelating storylines & characters, a few laughs, but you'll swear you've seen it all sometime, somewhere else. After the first few minutes you can't help but to watch to see if anyone gets away with anything, but it's all pretty much schlock in the end.

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Summary: Go!GO!GO!!!
Review: It's awesome, it's like an alternative funny movie. All the plots are entertaining and interesting. Since the movie is about useless people, it's makes sense I'd like it. There's only a few annoying parts. Can easily be watched over and over again.

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Summary: Unoriginal And Aggravating
Review: To call this movie unsubstantial and empty does not go far enough to describe its complete lack of importance and quality. This is the most aggravating and insulting movie I have seen this year.

"Go" is centered on a bunch of underdeveloped and useless characters that viewers cannot even force themselves to find any connection with. The story is devoid of any importance; it is not a story that needed telling. Especially not a lackluster story that receives multiple retellings from several points of view, which are not even loosely held together by the repetitive use of the phrase "Go." This entire story felt as though some executives sat around and watched "Pulp Fiction" several times and tried to copycat Tarantino's witty dialogue and characters, but failed miserably, instead focusing on dragging out a pointless plot for no grand reason. Everything of value and worth that can be found in "Pulp Fiction" cannot be found in "Go." The only thing that really connects these two movies is their deviation from traditional narrative storytelling. However, "Go" deviates from narrative convention far less than "Pulp Fiction."

Even though "Go" tries to convey a sense of being on "X" and living the crazy nightlife, it is far too tame to be considered a "wild ride" or even a cliched tag like an "emotional roller coaster." In the end, "Go" is nothing more than a let down and an overall waste of time.

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Summary: "The Selfish Pity of MAN"
Review: This film , the second from Director Doug Liman, is a high octane, stlyish, thought-provoking movie that borrows many of it's traits from "Pulp Fiction(1994)". It's about a group people who become the victims of drug-trafficing,(e.g. ancitpating "Traffic(2001)" In a world full of hypocritcal, uncutlral-moronic-teens, The Drug dealer preys upon the weak-minded, infecting them , tainting their minds with the trait, the art of Drug trade. But this event passed down to the weak-minded could go full-force, spreading, finding it's way through the most ambigous of social classes. Whether it be teens, young adults, senior citizens, hetrosexuals, bisexuals, homosexuals. It could happen to anybody. But it doesn't go full-force unless you allow it to, unless you become your own victim of your own drug trafficing. It won't take that long until you go under, you break the law. And then you can't do anything about it, you have broken the law. Becasue the law has it's litmitions, and once you break that line, theres no turning back. You are an open parisite in a world that has no reason to your kind. Your better off dead. This movie shows how the art of Drug dealing can destroy one's life. It shows how ignorant, and stupid, and hopeless our society is.And As the ocupant hands you the dope, your the dope who's soul is being taken away. It also shows just how far some people will go to forget their troubles, how such a carless, remorseful soceity, can take a sip of beer,until it's too late and your drunk, and you wind up killing somebody who is merely crossing the street. It represents the "selfish pity" of MAN. We are our own enemys and killing machinces, just becasue were high on prozac,we figure we have to take a couple of lives on the way to our meeting with death.

Substancially, the film isn't as nearly multilyared or close to the symbolic nature of raw power, of such films as "Pulp Fiction," or "Resivoir Dogs", but what you have here is something that both on a entertianment stand-point,and intelectual prespective, beats out most competion of the norm of most films released during the 1999 period, let alone the late 1990's: and era filled with stupid, moronic teen flicks, that hamper almost every genre. Doug Liman's approach is both flashy, stlyish, in it's molding, capturing the esscence of the adolence of American soceity. He may not hit upon the subject symbolically, but what he gives us is something insightful, eye-catching, smart, compently handled. And more important than anything:" Entertaining"

Rating: 3 1/2 out of 5

Garde: B 88%

Rating:
Summary: Quality Film
Review: I just had to give this one five stars. It's got a little bit of everything. The plot is very exciting and it tells the story in a very unique Tarrantino-esq fashion. Katie Holmes is hot, and so is this film. Definitely see it.

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Summary: Better and worse than 'Pulp Fiction'
Review: There is no way you can talk about this film and not bring up Tarantino's influence on movie-making. If Pulp Fiction had never been made, this would never have been made, but that is no bad thing. Structurally the two films are similar - three interlocking stories with a 'sandwich' story at the start and finish - and also in the writing, and these two things are what makes this film great and terrible at the same time, though great wins through in the end.

The structure is Go's starring grace. Whilst Pulp Fiction felt a little pointless in places (Mia's Story and The Gold Watch are only in the same film because they have the same characters), this film ties its varying strands together by such devices as showing both ends of the same telephone conversation in different stories, showing the outside/inside of a car, using a character from a different story's credit card, etc., etc. At the end, the bringing together of all the strands makes it a much more satisfying experience than Pulp Fiction, and there is wonderful comedy generated by this structure; from the outside, the car is an intimidating threat, but from the inside, it is so camp as to render it ridiculous. The trouble, however, is that in borrowing from Tarantino, the writer does not have Tarantino's deftness with dialogue. Tarantino has the ability to make a film like Pulp Fiction work, because whilst the dialogue seems pointless it sucks you in and keeps you watching. Go, on the other hand, is filled with the same banal dialogue, but a lot of the time it has no real allure or force behind it. I found the first two stories very difficult to watch, and despite the humour and links, had to stop myself from switching it off twice. By the time I got to the end, I loved it, but it is not overly successful at making its characters both likeable and interesting (note: Simon).

Beyond that, this film is kind of cool, if only for a talking point, and let's face it, Katie Holmes is always a plus point. The third story, Adam and Zack, is, literally, fantastic - funny, creepy, provocative - and the ending is a real star. This isn't going to change the way we look at movies and is far from toppling Tarantino from his throne, but you could do worse than watching Go, so long as you persevere to the ending. The cast are buoyant, if underused (i.e. Breckin Meyer), the direction more than competent, the editing, especially in the first story, top-notch, and the action visceral, but boy, how much does Doug Liman like Las Vegas?

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Summary: Listed as 2 discs, but it is only 1
Review: This movie, listed as having 2 discs, does not. As far as the movie goes, it's not bad. It gets pretty suspenseful, which makes it pretty fun.

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Summary: rave review!
Review: i was very impressed with this movie. i enjoyed the quick, "modern" pace which centers around the rave scene. I found all of the characters engaging and i was intrigued by the style used which retold the story from different character's points of view. what is more, this movie had me laughing more than the typical blockbuster comedy, with its rye sense of humor. i have to say i really enjoyed this movie and am looking forward to seeing it again!

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Summary: Lamp O Riffic
Review: This movie is great and I think Katie Holmes looks so dreamy