Excess Baggage Reviews

Honestly, I wasn't expecting much from this flick but since both Benicio Del Toro and Christopher Walken were involved, I thought I should give it a try. Unfortunately, even those two great guys couldn't save this tedious affair. I mean, they were both pretty good, as usual, especially Del Toro, but the story was just terribly underwhelming. I guess you could blame Alicia Silverstone who played one of her awful obnoxious girls. Back in those days, after the success of 'Clueless', Silverstone was hailed as the next 'It' girl and she even signed a $10,000,000 3-movie deal with Sony. Why on Earth they would think it was a good plan is really beyond me... Anyway, everything she did after 'Clueless', including this movie and 'Batman & Robin', pretty much flopped so she lost her status pretty quickly. Honestly, even though she wasn't really good in this, the worst was definitely the plot though. The amazing thing though is that each time Benicio Del Toro was on the screen, he managed to lift up the tedious material and there was something really interesting about the character he created. It is such a shame that, to the contrary to Christopher Walken who is basically a workaholic and would show up in basically anything, Del Toro doesn't make so many movies and even though he is always good, those movies are very often disappointing, pretty much like this one. To conclude, it is a rather weak feature and I don't think it is really worth a look.