Ned Fleming (ned@cjnetworks.com)
Fri, 23 Jul 1999 02:39:51 GMT
Mark Sullivan wrote:
>He was probably at his best in River's Edge, where he
acts both. It's a
>very hardboiled, and disturbing, tale based on that
true story about a
>stoner who killed his girlfriend, then took his
friends to see the body
>and it took several days before anyone told. The
movie also features a
>great performance by Dennis Hopper, as an older guy
who likes to have
>these stoners hang out at his place, with him and his
inflatable
>girlfriend. He had killed his real girlfriend many
years before.
Fred Ward as Bob the Nailer. Billy Bob Thornton as Bob the
Nailer. Dennis Hopper as Bob the Nailer. Clint Eastwood, were
he not 90 years old, as Bob the Nailer. Keanu Reeves as the
(mute) janitor in the basement of the town hall in the story
of Bob the Nailer.
It's not hardboiled (by my lights), but "Speed" was worth
watching as an action flick -- because Reeves was (mostly)
drowned out by the roar of the bus's diesel engine, Sandra
Bullock has nice boobs, and because the antagonist, Dennis
Hopper, was hilariously evil.
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