one of my absolute favorites!

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

I'm reminded of a line from "No Country For Old Men" - "Well this is just a deal gone wrong, isn't it?"In reading other viewer comments I'm struck by the number of reviews that mention "Pulp Fiction" as a model for this picture. For me, the idea never occurred because it's structure is notably different. The movie I'd offer as similar in style would be the prior year's "Run Lola Run", in fact if I didn't know better, I'd say the director here virtually copied the narrative device of starting the story over a couple of times to offer the points of view of it's different characters. In some ways it works here, and in others it doesn't, but on the whole the picture is cleverly written and entertaining in it's presentation.Coming to the movie at this late date, almost twenty years after it was released, I was struck by the appearance of some of the well known players who appeared here. Katie Holmes looked incredibly young, while Timothy Olyphant, a favorite ever since seeing him in such works as "Deadwood" and "Justified", appears more like a gruff teenager than his thirty years at the time of filming. Although the story line left some loose ends, I got a kick out of the convoluted situations the characters wound up in, and wouldn't have minded one more 'restart' to tighten things up.

Might appear dated now, but Doug 'Bourne identity' 'Edge of tomorrow' 'Mr./Mrs. Smith' 'Swingers' Liman has such a firm grip on the narrative, all the way through, that this one almost acts as the template-setter for everything that came after, in spite of its superlow budget, that is evident. And no, this is not a 'Clerks' or a 'Mallrats' wannabe, though the supermarket kinda connects our main characters. The trope, as tropes go, follows different paths taken by various lead characters from 2 points in the plot, 1, that sets things off, and the other, that acts as kind of a pre-climax of sorts, if that makes sense (it will, when you watch it). However, this is not just a post Pulp Fiction piecing together gimmick. It helps that said gimmick is help by solid narrative set- pieces, like the one where Katie Holmes' and Timothy Olyphant's characters get together accidentally (for the 2nd time) when Holmes lets loose, for the first time in the flick, followed by the recurring, consistent way Taye Diggs' character's jacket becomes a plot-twist, and the dinner scene at William Fichtner's place (fanta- hilarious), the scene with X marking the spot for some delayed revenge etc. Anyways, was a nice blast-from-the-past kinda experience, which has more in common with Liman's own 'Swingers' and Favreau's 'Made' (both of them with Vaughn and Favreau). Sarah Polley, Gordon-Levitt wannabe Desmond Askew, Timothy Olyphant, Taye Diggs, Jay Mohr, Scott Wolff, William Fichtner, Melissa McCarthy, Breckin Meyer, Jane Krakowski, the vastly underrated JE Freeman etc. have all had their own paths (with Polley even helming great movies), but this is a good one to watch to remember what they were once a part of (in a good way). Worth multiple viewings....even the deleted scenes actually should have been part of the flick....maybe a future complete-cut??

"Go" worked well enough for this viewer due to a quick pace, an engaging cast, a fair amount of chuckles, and a decent amount of entertainment value overall. It might not work for others due to the fact that there's nobody here to really root for. Too many of the characters are senseless or sordid. It also might have worked better if it weren't so obviously influenced by the Quentin Tarantino filmography. But it does an okay job of telling three connected stories, and tying them all together at the end. Director Doug Liman creates flashy visuals in the attempt to make this a hip and stylish affair.Four people get their stories told. Ronna (Sarah Polley) is a supermarket cashier in desperate need of cash to prevent her own eviction. So she gets in over her head trying to make a drug deal. Simon (Desmond Askew) is one of her co-workers who wants to have a wild weekend with his buddies in Las Vegas, and is willing to pay Ronna to work his shift. Finally, we see what happens to gay couple Adam (Scott Wolf) and Zack (Jay Mohr) - both of them actors - when they get in trouble with the law and agree to help quirky cop Burke (William Fichtner) with a sting operation.Some of these actors make this more watchable than it may have been otherwise. Fichtner is particularly funny (and for those interested, he bares his backside), Askew is amusing although his character is a dolt, and Timothy Olyphant does well as a drug dealer. Katie Holmes, Nathan Bexton, Taye Diggs, Breckin Meyer, James Duval, Tane McClure, Jimmy Shubert, J.E. Freeman, Jay Paulson, and Jane Krakowski round out this cast. Future star Melissa McCarthy can be seen in a bit.There is some fun to be had as the screenwriter, John August, and Liman, go about their business of assembling all of these separate episodes into a whole. The movie as a whole is nothing special, but it does provide a reasonable diversion for 102 minutes.Seven out of 10.

I seem to have been watching a number of good movies lately, but then again I generally do not like to watch movies unless they are good. As you have probably guessed, I though that Go was a pretty good movie, and it had more to do with it than myself thinking that two of the main female characters (or actually the blonde) were attractive.What is the plot you may ask? Well it is difficult to work out, with the exception of stating that it is about what a group of people do on Christmas eve. As to a singular plot, there isn't one, rather it is divided into three, and even then they do not have a singular goal. Simply put, it is the experiences of what people go through on this one night, the problems that they create and how they solve them.As my friend stated, Go is what Pulp Fiction should have been. It is made in a similar style to Pulp Fiction. The movie is divided into three sections, each of them stemming from one scene that occurs at the beginning of the movie, and these three sections deal with a different group of people. The first is about two girls who have been requested to get some ecstasy for a couple of guys, and then have to get rid of them because it is that or get caught by the cops, and then must try and get their collateral, which is actually one of them, back from the dealer.The second is about their friend, the guy who normally gets the drugs, and his trip to Las Vegas. There he runs out of money gambling, sleeps with two women at once, has to run from a burning building naked, shoots a bouncer at a sleazy club, and then escapes from Las Vegas after being chased by some nasty nightclub owners.The final one is about the two guys who wanted the drugs, and their adventures that night where they have to help the police catch a drug dealer, then go back to the guy's house for dinner, and then chase down the person who they had been sleeping with. Finally they all seem to tie together nicely, leaving the movie with the question of what they will do New Year's Eve.When trying to decide what this movie is, I concluded that it is a mix between a Quentin Tarrentino, Kevin Smith, and Australian made movie. It had a distinctly Australian feel about it, even though it was filmed in Los Angeles. The structure of the movie was distinctly Tarrentino, with dialogue that seemed to come straight from a Kevin Smith movie. The sound track was quite good as well.One thing this movie does is that it explores the more left wing American culture, as we travel with a number of people during that one night. We are left at times wondering what happened to people, and see how unexpected twists surprise us as to the nature of most of the characters. In the end though, we are left exhausted in the aftermath of what truly was an exciting night.