Wow! Such a good movie.

Expected more

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

There is a strange dreamlike quality to this film, which makes it hard for me to rate after one viewing.Eric Roberts as "Jack Hart" and Kelly Preston as "Jean Starr," had the lead roles. It wasn't a bad movie. My main complaint was the overuse of the Lord's name in vain" with the crew cut detective and Roberts' girlfriend "Isabel" as the main offenders. Lee Ermey, who played the famous profanity-spewing drill sergeant from "Full Metal Jacket" was the garbage-mouth detective in here ("Frank Deacon") while Isabel was played by Roberts' real-life wife, Eliza.If that had been reduced, I would have kept this video, because it featured good suspense and was unpredictably strange. Thus, multiple viewing of this would be fine. Could it have been better? Certainly. I am a big fan of cinematography and there was nothing special about the way this was shot. I'm still not convinced I've seen too many good films with either Roberts or Preston starring in them. There is a reason both of them never became big stars.However, the atmosphere was good in this film; Preston and her exposed boobs certainly were eye-candy, and even Roberts' dumb character, "Jack" was kind of fascinating to watch at times. If this movie came out on DVD, I would give it another look. By then, I'd probably know if it was really good, or just garbage. It's hard to tell on just one viewing, because it's so different.

I like Eric Roberts, even though he plays a moron forensic photographer in this movie. But maybe this is what the scrip called for. The dream sequences and imagery gave one the feeling that this was something David Lynch would write as a teenager but maybe I'm studying too much into it. Truthfully, I rather liked the movie. I found myself laughing right along with `Jack' as he watched his own scenario from the night before; unfold on a TV soap opera, verbatim.at a house of a murder site with the body lying before him. I also wondered where the dream ended and the nightmare began or vise-a-versa and how conveniently reality could be woven into the two. I personally would recommend the movie as I would any Eric Roberts movie. (Even `The Shadow People and `The Immortals.') Ironically when the movie was over, I sat back and exclaimed.what a ****** up movie!'

I don't know if the producers of this film envisaged that "Love is a Gun" was destined for late night cable but that's where I saw this film and that's what it deserves. A convoluted plot, a by the numbers performance by Eric Roberts and pedestrian pacing throughout unite to consign this film to mediocrity. The only factor that saves "Love is a Gun" from being a complete waste of time is Kelly Preston, who at least looks like she took the role for something other than the money.Eric Roberts plays a photographer infatuated by Kelly Preston who is married to a much older man. Eric and Kelly become embroiled in an affair which causes Eric to start going off the deep end and perform his trade marked crazy man routine which he has honed to a perfection over the years.R. Lee Ermey (Full Metal Jacket) gives a solid performance as a detective but the rest of the cast fail to make an impression.As indicated, Kelly Preston is the star of this film and it has perplexed me why she has not become more successful than she is. She either has been stuck in second rate fare where she has little room to show her talents or she bobs up in cameos in block buster movies when she should, by all rights be in the starring role. If the Movie Gods are at all fair, she will soon be offered a role which will do her talents justice and launch her into the acting stratosphere.

Very interesting and unpredictable thriller. It gets more and more exciting towards the end. Best moment is when Jack Hart shoots himself and just a millisecond before that he sees that ring in the table. Interesting way of telling the story going back and forth in time. Good entertainment for those who like movies that aren't what they seem to be.