It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

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

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

This movie The Boost is a cautionary tale for not just about drug addiction, but also for everybody who is new in this town called Los Angeles by following 4 simple rules. First when somebody offers you an opportunity, don't blow it , Second is manage your money wisely and not spend it on things and are not worth spending, Third hang around with people who are trustworthy and want to support you on succeeding, and not of people who you think you trust is going to suck you dry and giving you something you should not take. and lastly don't do drugs. 4 simple rules that everybody must follow when you're new to this city. It has nothing to do whether you're rich or poor, it's about staying alive and following the right path.

Directed by Vision Quest director, Harold Becker, The Boost is a fairly disturbing, though sometimes corny, illustration of the rise and fall of the late 80s yuppie--who's downfall usually came (at least in movies like these) from a coke habit. (See Bright Lights, Big City, Clean & Sober, and Less Than Zero...although the latter is more disturbing in it's original form as Easton's novel).This is the story about the tragic downfall of Lenny Brown (James Woods), a regular guy with a knack as a salesman who seems to falter in, I suppose, trying to impress his wife, Linda (Sean Young) that he is not going to be a struggling salesman his whole life. Opportunity presents himself when a wealthy real-estate speculator (in a business that is mostly a scam--selling property to the filthy rich for the purpose of a tax write-off) and Lenny Brown proves to his trusting boss, Max (Stephen Hill), that he is good at what he does. With his new job, comes a new life for Lenny and Linda, one with the luxuries of fast money and fast living. And with it, a rude awakening.Linda grows bored and skeptical of the new life, particularly when money is all Lenny talks about. Just like every party, it soon comes to an end, and when there is a chance that the tax shelter will be closed, Lenny's job is at risk. He's blown too much money already to just sit on his hands and wait for things to pick up. But, he's strapped for cash, gets fired from his job after his boss discovers he's been stealing, and there'll be no easy solution to his dilemma since he's adopted a new coke habit. He and Linda, both.It's hard for reality to kick in. For Linda, it takes a while, but for Lenny, one failure after another, taking him farther and farther away from the high-life he intended to someday return to, he never seems to recover. After a while, he just becomes pathetic, and incapable of really fixing himself up, although it seemed like for a while, he could. These are the powerful moments in the film, that there seems like nothing that could ever pull Lenny out of his slump, no matter how hard he tries. It's one bad circumstance after another and Lenny just keeps giving in, just a little more, just for that one "boost", to help him out, all the while ignoring that it is exactly what keeps him sinking deeper and deeper into a hole he's gotten himself so far into, he's never going to recover. The final scene makes this very clear as he joins the ranks of an insolvent coke dealer, mumbling about his wife, who had long ago left him.There are some cornier moments written into the film, particularly towards the beginning when we must see Linda and Lenny in their more romantic, newlywed sentiment. Some of Lenny's dialog in particular, seems a bit ridiculous, too, especially in his moments of grandeur. It does take until about half-way in the film to make the point, of the misery of addiction, very clear and very disturbing.The Boost is the yuppie meeting the inevitable fate of his dystopia.

The boost is a DRAMA, but I consider it to be one of the funniest movies ever. Unfortunately it wasn't intended as a comedy. James Wood acts like an ass throughout the movie, giving new meaning to the term overacting. Overacting may not be the best way of describing his performance, but its just so bizarre. The Boost is kind of like an eighties version of reefer madnes, except for cocaine. Just a funny and weird movie.

My gosh, this movie was nothing more than filmmaking by numbers. Struggling salesman can't make a go of it in New York, mentor with a heart of gold takes him under his wing, struggling salesman moves to California and makes it big, then loses it big, then bounces back with the simple life, then hits rock bottom trying to get back to the top. I don't think I can remember any part of the plot that took more than five seconds to develop. Case in point (spoiler?): When the John Kapelos character calls to say he and his girlfriend were coming to Santa Cruz to visit, and James Woods says there's practically no chance he would come, you knew with 100% certainty they were coming in the next scene or two.On the other hand, Sean Young sure looked good.