: The Salton Sea
The worst thing about this movie is the title: it’s meaningless and tells you nothing about the film. I thought it was some kind of thriller, but it’s more of a dark mystery. It’s about drugs and drug-dealing, though we soon learn that the narrator, a supposed druggie, isn’t, and has a secret agenda. Overall the thing feels rather uncertain of itself: like the main character, who pretending to be something he’s not, so’s the film. It is an action flick? A drug pic? A thriller? A mystery? A revenge picture? It doesn’t know and seems to waiver oddly between them. The actual plot, once we get halfway through and start to figure it out, is surprisingly clever and impressive, but we have to wade through a lot of crap to get there. The best thing in the film is unquestionably Vincent D’Onofrio as Pooh-Bear, a drug dealer who did so much crack he lost his nose and wears a plastic one. He’s hilarious, unrecognizable, and an amazing character. Unfortunately, he’s not in the film enough — but the movie’s worth watching just for his performance. Other than that, the movie’s okay, though the second half is better than the first (which is unusual).
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