Year:
1999
Studio:
Columbia Pictures
Movie:
3/5
DVD:
4/5
Teaser
"Go" is a story told through three points of view via three
mini-stories, much like Quentin Tarentino's "Pulp Fiction" which was
the first movie where I saw this being used. First we have Ronna (Sarah
Polley), a teenage cashier at the local supermarket. Adam and Zack want
to buy some Ecstacy and since Ronna's dealer, Simon, is out of town she
sees this as an opportunity to jump up the drug chain. Naturally, she
drags her friends Claire (Katie Holmes) and Mannie (Nathan Bexton) to
help her see the supplier, Todd Gaines (Timothy Oliphant).
In the second story, Simon (Desmond Askew) goes to Las Vegas with his
friends Marcus (Taye Diggs), Tiny (Breckin Meyer) and Singh (James
Duval). Simon is from England and he loves it here. He also wants to
get laid and gets his friends into trouble with the hoods that run the
Crazy Horse strip club. But it's ok since Simon used Todd's credit card
so the hoods can't trace it back to him.
The third story involves soap opera stars Zack (Jay Mohr) and Adam
(Scott Wolf) who are gay and together, though they're keeping it a
secret. The duo get busted for Marijuana posession but if they help the
police, in the person of Burke (William Fichtner), nab their dealer
they can go free. What the duo don't know is that Burke has other
designs for them.
Movie
As an overall story "Go" is ok. It's sort of a night in the life of
young people. There doesn't seem to be any real point -- no message
about morals or life -- which can be good or bad. Since the movie
doesn't dwell on any one character too long I didn't empathize or
identify or really liked any of the characters. And that's why the
movie is only a so so for me. There's a lot of stuff going on but I had
a hard time caring if anything happened.
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Actors
Katie Holmes gets first credit and I guess she was the most famous of
the group at the time (arguably Jay Mohr and Taye Diggs may be more
famous now). Her character of Clair doesn't really get a story of her
own -- she's sort of the closest thing to a first hand observer of all
the events though of course she misses a whole lot.
I think Desmond Askew has the best performance in the movie. And he
doesn't even get credited in the trailer, probably because this is his
first American movie and the other actors are more known to American
audiences. But there's something about a wacky Brit trying to act
American based on what he's seen in movies -- it's quite funny.
DVD
There is a somewhat interesting commentary by Director Doug Lyman and
Editor Steven Mariuni. They're into the movie and had some nice
anecdotes but I found myself just not paying attention for some reason.
There are three music videos: "New" by No Doubt, "Magic Carpet Ride" by
Philip Steir and "Steal My Sunshine" by LEN. There is a theatrical
trailer, a six-minute making of featurette, 14 deleted scenes and some
bios. Overall a good amount of bonus material.
Recommendations
This movie is aimed at the twenty-something audience and I guess it
delivers. Maybe I'm too old for it or maybe it really wasn't that good.
In general I think it's barely worth seeing once. |