Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 53
Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 21
A labyrinthine thriller with a host of memorable characters, 2 Days in the Valley is an uneven but intriguing thriller/black comedy.
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 4
A labyrinthine thriller with a host of memorable characters, 2 Days in the Valley is an uneven but intriguing thriller/black comedy.
liked it
Average Rating: 3/5
User Ratings: 14,074
A variety of crooks, losers, and working stiffs living in the shadow of Hollywood find their various personal crises overlapping in this intricately woven melodrama. Lee Woods (James Spader) is a cold-blooded hit man and Dosmo Pizzo (Danny Aiello) a soft-at-heart gangster; they've been sent to murder Roy Foxx (Peter Horton), the former husband of also-ran Olympic skier Becky Foxx (Teri Hatcher). Lee's girlfriend Helga (Charlize Theron) is unhappy about his habit of killing people, and she
Sep 27, 1996 Wide
Aug 7, 2001
HBO Video
All Critics (55) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (32) | Rotten (21) | DVD (4)
To the director's credit, the actors all seem responsive to his touch, giving performances that are lively and flavorsome, if not deep or unlike anything each of them has done before.
Herzfeld has a tolerable eye for filling a 'Scope frame but a tin ear when it comes to creating dialogue; these are all characters we've met before, and most even seem bored with themselves.
A sleek, amusingly nasty screen debut by a film maker whose television credits include an Amy Fisher docudrama.
Funny, pathetic, sad, absurdist -- writer-director John Herzfeld plays it any number of ways, and makes them all work.
There are too many characters, but some are a lot of fun. The tone shifts, from graphic murder to wig-flipping farce, are too extreme, but much of it works.
The plot underlies even the most inexplicable scenes and eventually links even the most widely separated characters, but what makes the movie fun is the dialogue and the behavior.
A sharp, smart movie peppered with A-grade performances from its B-list cast.
It's not that this is a bad, blackly comic slice-of-lowlife: It's just that you've just seen it all before.
A quirky, multi-character collage that skillfully keeps you off balance, not knowing where it's headed.
One constant is its lovely cinematography. Another is its utter insignificance.
Smoothly constructed, for such a busy piece of work, and Hatcher's ascent to stardom continues.
When the highlight of your movie is a catfight between Teri Hatcher and Charlize Theron...well, it's not necessarily a bad thing, but it couldve been better
Charlize Theron is super-sexy, and devilishy memorable
an intelligent thriller - a nice surprise
This smart movie never seemed smart.
Closer to straightforward drama than black comedy.
AA great movie. Somehow I have run into a string of movies lately where the lives of about 6 people all intertwine with each other during the movie. This one is the best of all. Danny Aiello plays an excellent part, along with Paul Mazursky. What we have is a divorced couple, and the wife pays to have her husband
November 7, 2009Super Reviewer
A great cast and a good film but it seemed like it was trying to be something it wasn?t, an American Mike Leigh film if you will!
September 24, 2009Super Reviewer
| 35% | The Hangover Part II |
| 25% | Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Par... |
| 81% | Kung Fu Panda 2 |
| 44% | Cowboys & Aliens |
| 83% | Rise of the Planet of the Apes |
| 25% | Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Par... |
| 88% | Lady and the Tramp |
| 69% | A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas |
| 21% | Fireflies in the Garden |
| 45% | The Rebound |
Journey 2 Not Worth the Trip
What are his 10 best movies ever?
See the all-new action-packed trailer!
Five new Marvelous pictures