OUR REVIEW
Who's in It: Bill Paxton, Orlando Bloom, Zoe Saldana, Anthony Mackie, Agnes Bruckner, Stephen Dillane
The Basics: It's just what you were waiting for — a Crash-meets-Traffic crime-romance drama about intersecting lives and bummer-y hopelessness, as directed by someone really into Quentin Tarantino. Bloom is a humble fisherman who falls for Saldana. Her brother (Mackie) doesn't like this and throws some acid in Bloom's face. How does this connect to Paxton's bad-guy millionaire character? Barely. That's the random-intersection part.
What's the Deal? Dumb is not always a bad quality in a movie. But when the Dumb is not fun and you're forced to make your own, it's best if you're in the right place and the right time. Here's what I mean: If I had been able to watch this on DVD (which it should have gone straight to) with a group of friends who were in a mocking mood, I would have dug it more. Because with Dumb, there's no such thing as bad or good, really — just interesting and boring. And this one's boring.
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