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Title: Tarantino and a cast of thousands
Review: Tarantino writes the script. And everyone and their mothers are in this movie. The casting must have cost half the budget. (One wonders why Steve Buscemi wasn't in on this one.) However, the casting and the script are pretty much the only reasons to watch this movie, which is about forty-five minutes too long for its plot. Christian Slater and his unknowing wife (Patricia Arquette) steal half a million dollars' worth of cocaine from a very nasty pimp/dealer (an unrecognizable Gary Oldman, playing as great a bad guy as he did in The Professional) and head for Cali to sell it. Could've been a high-powered action flick (the theft), could have been a good road movie (getting to Cali), could have been another good high-powered action flick (trying to sell the drugs to a hysterically funny Bronson Pinchot), but when the director attempted to glue the pieces together, everything came out flat. For Tarantino completists.
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