Average Rating: 7.7/10
Reviews Counted: 47
Fresh: 42 | Rotten: 5
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Average Rating: 8.2/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 0
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Average Rating: 3.6/5
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Mike Figgis' grim drama documents a romantic triangle of sorts involving prostitute Sera (Elisabeth Shue), failed Hollywood screenwriter Ben (Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage), and the constant flow of booze which he loves more dearly than life itself. Arriving in Las Vegas with the intention of drinking himself to death, Ben meets Sera, and they gradually begin falling for one another. From the outset, however, Ben warns Sera that no matter what, she can never ask him to quit drinking, a condition to
Oct 27, 1995 Wide
Feb 24, 1998
United Artists
All Critics (47) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (42) | Rotten (6) | DVD (9)
We're not talking high, morally instructive tragedy here, just a hard lesson in postmodernist outlawry and its sad little anarchies.
The film pulls no punches, takes no prisoners and flies in the face of feel-good pictures.
The plot goes nowhere, but under the pornographic circumstances Figgis, Cage, and Shue all do fine jobs.
Small, searing film.
A uniquely hypnotic and haunting love story sparked by Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue at their career best.
A film laden with virtues but difficult to embrace.
Figgis puts a desperate drunk front and center and demands we deal with him and the Jungian shadow he casts. [Blu-ray]
Figgis' film, one of the few to show the sleazy flip-side of the glossy city of Las Vega, offers an unblinking portrayal of alcoholism.
It's a relief when so dark a film refuses to preach, trusting the viewer to draw his own conclusions about the roots of America's self-destructive funk.
Figgis presents disintegration as a state of grace.
Overrated.
It certainly has the courage of its convictions.
An uncompromising, surprisingly poignant skid-row love story.
Grim yet compelling, downbeat but not really depressing, Mike Figgis' multi-nuanced portrait of an alcoholic, splendidly played by Oscar winner Nicholas Cage, is easily is most accomplished and haunting picture.
A haunting, heartbreaking film.
Nick Cage loses his shit and wins an oscar...what a movie! The story and his acting blend in such a intriguing way that you have to appreciate it!
October 26, 2011
Super Reviewer
This will make you feel like shit and really not want to have sex.
April 14, 2009Super Reviewer
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