Go

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Summary: 24 hours with nowhere to go but down...
Review: Blending the narrative savvy of Pulp Fiction with the hup and hard-edged groove of Human Traffic, Go is one teenage movie that know's exactly where it's going. Spiralling out from a single moment that changes the lives of a motely collection of characters, the film starts uncertainly but then just gets better and better. And better.

Set on Christmas Eve in Los Angeles, the story begins in a 24-hour supermarket where English loose cannon Simon (Desmond Askew), asks fellow employee Ronna (an almost Oscar-worthy Sarah Polley) to cover for his shift. Faced with eviction if she cannot summon up some rent money fast, Ronna decides to try her hand at a little drug peddling. Approached by two amiable actors at the checkout, she decides to broker a drug deal. Adam and Zack (Scott Wolf and Jay Mohr) need 20 Ecstasy pills and were hoping to aquire them from Simon. No problem, says Ronna. So, after work she meets up with Simon's dealer hoping to negotiate a quick profit. But having acquired the Es - and left her friend Claire (Katie Holmes) as 'human collateral' at the dealer's apartment - she senses that she is being set up by Zack and Adam and flushes the pills down the dunny... As Ronna's night escalates into a complete and utter nightmare, the film suddenly flips back to it's starting point where we follow Simon to Vegas. Here, Simon, too, quickly gets out of his depth as his weekend of partying turns decidely sour. And then, in the film's final stretch, Adam and Zack take over centre stage and eventually all the strings of the story pull together leading to a satisfactorily gripping and explanatory climax.

The second feature from the director of the cult 1996 Swingers, Go is edgy, crafty, suprising, sly, unexpected, gripping and disarming cinema. Add to this generous lashings of violence, humour and nudity and you have a movie that delivers in spades. What more reason do you need to see this? GO!

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Summary: Pumpin' and hilarious.
Review: My second fave movie (Dazed & Confused is first) stays funny (darkly) and the pace is usually fast.

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Summary: Fast moving noir, but no "Fiction"
Review: Drug users, drug dealers, a pair of soap opera actors, and more. They all cross paths on one Christmas Eve in L.A. and Las Vegas in this film from Doug Liman, who directed Swingers. This movie certainly has lots of energy, and tries to push its audience into its ongoing rush. But unlike Pulp Fiction, the film to which it has often been compared, the screenplay is nowhere as original, funny, or good. Liman did a much better job with Swingers, which was funnier and more clever. Still, this is a talented young cast, and includes solid performances from Jay Mohr, William Fichtner, Katie Holmes, Taye Diggs and Desmond Askew.

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Summary: loved that bit about amway
Review: well, this movie is on my wishlist. it's one of those films that have a different take on the way events should be arranged. the reason i like it so much isn't for the story line (it's nothing new), or for the acting, but for the scene about selling amway.

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Summary: What a Comedic Turn!
Review: I think this Film has some great underlying stories and back images. Very funny and very witty, not only are the actors good as well as the storyline. If you haven't seen this and would like to see a very funny look at the life of some average/not so average people watch this. I guarantee you will be grabbing your sides in laughter!

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Summary: better than average "Pulp Fiction" knockoff
Review: "Go" emerges as one of the better "Pulp Fiction" knockoffs of the past several years, less strained and cutesy than most, and with a refreshing lighthandedness that manages to obscure the strain that often shows in multi-level screenplays such as these.

"Go" actually tells three different tales, interlocked by the occasional overlapping of characters and situations into an ultimately tightly wound narrative web. Each of the stories features a common theme of basically decent youth who take a risk at the high stake gambles of life (i.e. drug dealing, promiscuous sex, car theft), but who ultimately lack the requisite nerves of steel and moral indifference to successfully enter the world of amorality they so naively feel they can conquer.

Most of the fun in the film rests in following the characters through the labyrinth of a plot writer John August and director Doug Liman have concocted. The first episode, in fact, in which the attractive but desperate Ronna attempts to enter the high stakes world of drug dealing and fails miserably, appears, on the surface, to be dull and shallow until its purpose in the overall puzzle is revealed. In fact, each episode increases in interest and complexity helping to draw the audience deeper into the offbeat world of the film. By the end, one has grown to actually care about these characters, since their basic sense of youthful innocence is allowed to shine through. Unlike many writers before him aspiring to Tarantinoesque stature, August doesn't overdo the quirkiness that is always lying just below the surface of these films, nor does he pile on the selfconsiously flippant attitude towards violence that has ruined too many independent productions in recent years.

"Go" features a first rate cast of actors who ease nicely into their roles and slide into that fine balance between seriousness and humor that the screenplay establishes. In a similar way, the film itself glides fluidly between past and present, drawing, again like "Pulp Fiction" a giant narrative circumference around the action.

It may take awhile for a viewer to capture the rhythms of the film, but, by sticking with it and following it along on its unorthodox course, that viewer will be handsomely rewarded.

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Summary: GO DVD REVIEW: Entertaining, funny and very interesting!
Review: Before I started watching this movie, I heard so much hype of how cool this movie is. I was watching a movie directed by a friend called "Yellow" and people described it as the Asian version of "GO". Well, I enjoyed "Yellow" thus I had to check out this movie called "GO" which many people have been raving about. I was impressed!

At first I didn't know what to think about it. I thought it was OK in the first 30 minutes and then next thing you know, it got better. I liked how there were different storylines which were all connected and it was pretty cool.

As for the video, the colors were nice and colorful. I don't recall major artifacts. As for the sound, since it's a dialogue movie, not much sound effects but the music is was is utilized the most. Really good music in this film.

As for the special features in this movie, I was impressed how many deleted scenes were included in this DVD. I wonder why some of them were taken out but I still have to watch the director's commentary on that. Also, cool music videos were included especially the popular Len music video. The featurette was also cool to watch.

The movie was pretty good. A good opportunity to sit back and watch young actors go to raves, experiment with drugs and alcohol and have some fun while some face certain consequences. Very entertaining with the variety of characters in this movie. Check it out!

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Summary: ThiS MoviE Is GrEaT
Review: This movie engulfs you the same way a movie like Wild Things does, with all the twist and turns you just get hooked. An absolute must see movie.

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Summary: Go is a great movie, Very funny and does the unexpected
Review: I had heard that this was an entertaining movie had gotten ok reviews and wanted to have a movie to watch on my laptop when I went on vacation.

This movie was knock down, bust out laughing funny. There were many parts in the movie that you did not see coming and the movie kept building up the pace until it was riding the line of out of control while staying uproariously funny.

At one point I had busted out laughing on the plane while wearing headphones and could not stop. This movie really had me going.

You can watch this movie and imagine you and your friends having adventures like this (or at least your kids having adventures like this if you are a little older).

The deleted scenes that the DVD had were cool too. You got to see some of the parts rehearsed, got to see what the director was looking for in certain parts of the movie and in the case with the little boy in the hotel room, a funny scene that should have stayed in the movie.

I would recommend this movie to anyone who wants a fun DVD to watch and show your friends (since a lot of people missed its theatrical release, a real sleeper).

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Summary: BEST MOVIE OF 1999
Review: Aside from being perfectly cast and acted, wonderfully written, brillianty directed and insanely edited (sorry about all the superlatives)Go is a fantastic movie. Please, spare me the comparrisons to Pulp Fiction, though. While I'm not denying that there are some, I just think it is unfair to burden such an accomplished movie as Go with a "copycat" status. Not only is Go an original movie, it is, dare i say, MORE entertaining than Pulp Fiction. Where in that movie characters needed to express themselves in long, overwrought and ultimatley pretentious monologues, Go let's the characters actions speak for themselves with never a forced line or false moment which makes the movie surprisingly believeable. While that is good, a documentary on the rave scene is probably not what you are looking for. Fear not, Go is first and foremost a wildly entertaining movie that will make you jump, laugh and (at some points) have your jaw hanging near the ground. While some may argue that Go is purely "fluff" with no real plot and no real place in history as a relevant and important piece of filmmaking, I must disagree, because not only is this a fun movie, it is a very greatly made movie that deserves all the acolades it recieves. Doug Liman has crafted a movie that will, in time (if the world is fair), be viewed as a paean to what it was like to be young and desperate during the late 90's. If not, then oh well, because above all, Go is hugely entertaining. And if that is not recomendation enough, then (you knew it was coming) GO see it.