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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | D.J. Caruso |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 2002 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Warner Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Adult Language, Bleak, Color, Crime, Crime Thriller, Double Life, Drama, Drug Content, Drug Trade, English, Enigmatic, Feature, Feature Film Drama, Feature Film-drama, Graphic Violence, Ironic, Moody, Movie, Mystery / Suspense, Not For Children |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| MPN: | D18882D |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 085391888222 |
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Customer Reviews of The Salton Sea
Violence in The Salton Sea This is a well made film with some great photography. The main problem I had with it is the non-stop violence and the ugly images (and sounds) to which one is subjected. (At one point, we hear a man screaming as an animal tears him apart.) Val Kilmer is excellent in the lead role and Vincent D'Onofrio does his usual fine job even though his character has to wear a fake nose because the plot has taken away his real one. (Don't ask!) "The Salton Sea," by the way is the name of a strange and somewhat creepy part of eastern Los Angeles. There is a fine documentary available concerning The Salton Sea, narrated by John Waters and it might help in viewing this film.
Slick, grimy noir.
The Salton Sea (D. J. Caruso, 2002)
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>It took me a while to get round to seeing this movie, and I regret that now. For some reason, there was about a five-year stretch where neo-noir was huge in Hollywood (blame Fargo, I guess), and then they just stopped coming. With a few exceptions that pretty much everyone ignored, The Salton Sea being one of them. This is a travesty, because The Salton Sea manages to avoid a lot of the cookie-cutter noir trappings from which so many of those films suffered from. I grant you, I'm not saying it's anything original. No noir film is, or it wouldn't be noir. But it stays firmly in the present in its sensibilities, rather than either being a period piece or being set in the middle of nowhere so it can act like a period piece (viz. U-Turn or the aforementioned Fargo). Caruso also roped a stellar cast into this project and got top-notch performances out of the lot, and that's often what makes the difference between a Sunset Blvd. and a [insert generic fifties noir no one, including you, remembers anymore].
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>Danny Parker (Val Kilmer) is a jazz trumpeter who also happens to be a crystal meth addict. He developed the addiction after the untimely death of his wife. As we open, we have no idea what killed her, or why, only that Danny's life is a pretty ugly mess. He hangs around with a similar batch of meth addicts, but the only one who he can really consider a friend is Jimmy (Peter Sarsgaard). We quickly find out... oh, hell, I can't tell you that. Everything after the first five minutes of this movie is spoilersville. It's not that the plot is terribly complex, but it's terribly linear--this isn't one of those mysteries where you get dropped a piece of information, and then everyone assumes you forget it until miss Marple is in the drawing room. When Danny finds something out, he immediately uses it. Tony Gayton's screenplay approaches the doling out of information to the viewer the same way. When you get something, you can immediately paste it into the bigger picture the movie is drawing for you. (This is by design, as Danny challenges you to figure out who he is, and why he's playing a trumpet in a burning room, in the opening scene of the film.)
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>I vaguely remember the critical reaction to The Salton Sea being lukewarm. I'm hoping that my memory is, as usual, less than reliable, `cause this movie has, and delivers, the goods. If you missed it the first time round, and you're fond of noir, I recommend it highly. *** ½
Best movie I have ever had the pleasure of seeing.
This is my number one film. Its the best example of neo-noir. Its kinda hard to get through at first, but as he says, just bear with him. It does a great job of screwing with your mind. Great flick, especialy if your into films like Memento or Fight Club.