What the....? Nonsense. Absolute nonsense. My roomate picked this movie out on a whim because I think he wanted to see David Bowie act (which he doesnt do well at all) and see some mindless violence (which there wasn't nearly enough of to keep you interested in a boring, barely understandable plot).
First let me start off by saying that if you are not from Europe there's a good chance you are missing half of the dialogue in the movie which may explain why I was confused at times as to what was going on.
Next.... what was up with the four guy dance troupe running a preschool and hanging with the gangstas? I wasn't even sure what kind of group they were until they actually performed later in the movie. Were they a band? Dancers? Nothing at all? They kind of just hung out at the preschool smoked joints when they got flustered and did some kind spin move every now and then. Ridiculous. I'm not even going to get into their performance later in the movie.
David Bowie... he was a decent actor in the 80's. His perfromance in The Hunger was great and even his character in Labryinth was done well, but in this he sucks. Sucks bad. He plays the homosexual gang leader (i think) and displays no emotion, even when he's holding a dying friend in his arms trying to keep him alive he elicits nothing, nothing at all. Very wooden performance is the best way to describe it.
Whoever edited the movie did a horrible job, it was never clear what happened to certain characters at certain points which just added to the confusion when you couldn't figure out what they were talking about.
"Got some sugarpuss?" I think thats what I heard the main character say to a girl at one point but I don't know what that means. Food or sex? Didn't matter I guess.
On a positive note, there were some darn cool cars in the movie and some of the music wasn't half bad when there wasn't ridiculous Color Me Badd dancing going on.
And lastly the ending scene could have been very powerful if the rest of the movie had enough substance to back it up and get you into it. But it didn't. Skip it.
First let me start off by saying that if you are not from Europe there's a good chance you are missing half of the dialogue in the movie which may explain why I was confused at times as to what was going on.
Next.... what was up with the four guy dance troupe running a preschool and hanging with the gangstas? I wasn't even sure what kind of group they were until they actually performed later in the movie. Were they a band? Dancers? Nothing at all? They kind of just hung out at the preschool smoked joints when they got flustered and did some kind spin move every now and then. Ridiculous. I'm not even going to get into their performance later in the movie.
David Bowie... he was a decent actor in the 80's. His perfromance in The Hunger was great and even his character in Labryinth was done well, but in this he sucks. Sucks bad. He plays the homosexual gang leader (i think) and displays no emotion, even when he's holding a dying friend in his arms trying to keep him alive he elicits nothing, nothing at all. Very wooden performance is the best way to describe it.
Whoever edited the movie did a horrible job, it was never clear what happened to certain characters at certain points which just added to the confusion when you couldn't figure out what they were talking about.
"Got some sugarpuss?" I think thats what I heard the main character say to a girl at one point but I don't know what that means. Food or sex? Didn't matter I guess.
On a positive note, there were some darn cool cars in the movie and some of the music wasn't half bad when there wasn't ridiculous Color Me Badd dancing going on.
And lastly the ending scene could have been very powerful if the rest of the movie had enough substance to back it up and get you into it. But it didn't. Skip it.