A very good movie

Even though John Dahl never really fulfilled all the good expectations we had after ‘The Last Seduction’ was a critical success, he definitely had a good run in the 90’s with some of the best neo-noir features ever conceived. The funny thing is that those great gems didn’t get much love when they were released (I have to admit it, I didn’t really love ‘The Last Seduction’ either but it has been years since I saw it and I should definitely re-watch it). Anyway, I really loved ‘Kill Me Again’, John Dahl’s directing debut and I was really eager to check his following directing effort. And, once again, I was really impressed. Indeed, I just loved the mood and there was a great cast (Nicolas Cage, Dennis Hopper, Lara Flynn Boyle, J.T. Walsh, Dwight Yoakam). Back in those days, Nicolas Cage was still a very good actor and he wasn’t embarrassing himself like nowadays. For Lara Flynn Boyle, it was one of the first movies she did after her breakthrough with ‘Twin Peaks’, she was definitely born to play such femme fatales and it’s too bad her career went nowhere pretty fast (she also looks terribly ugly nowadays after some terribly misguided plastic surgery. Such a shame…). Even though I usually have a hard time to care for the usual preposterous plots in your average US thriller, I thought it worked like a charm here and I really enjoyed this far-fetched story. To conclude, even though it is nowadays pretty much forgotten, it is actually a really good flick and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

8/10