The Salton Sea (2002)
If you took Memento, ran it front-to-back, replaced memory loss with meth addiction, turned every character into a walking quirk factory and made it really stupid, this might be the result. Embarassingly pretentious, too, which only makes it seem all the stupider when it tries something like a throwaway bit about a plan to steal Bob Hope's stool sample. Of the large, distinguished cast, only Vincent d'Onofrio gets away unscathed -- probably because he seems to be the only one who realizes the wholesale dumbness at work here.
Grade: D+
If you took Memento, ran it front-to-back, replaced memory loss with meth addiction, turned every character into a walking quirk factory and made it really stupid, this might be the result. Embarassingly pretentious, too, which only makes it seem all the stupider when it tries something like a throwaway bit about a plan to steal Bob Hope's stool sample. Of the large, distinguished cast, only Vincent d'Onofrio gets away unscathed -- probably because he seems to be the only one who realizes the wholesale dumbness at work here.
Grade: D+
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