Wonderful character development!

disgusting, overrated, pointless

A different way of telling a story

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Kiefer Sutherland directed and reserved for himself the best part in Truth Or Consequences, NM. He's one kill crazy amoral dude in this film.Vincent Gallo gets released from prison and within the day he's greeted by his girlfriend Kim Dickens and they hook up with Kiefer Sutherland and Mykelti Williamson for a caper involving robbing drug dealer John C. McGinley who Gallo has bad history with.We find out early enough that Sutherland really enjoys pulling that trigger. In what should have been a simple robbery he kills McGinley out of some pique and then kills another who turn out to be an undercover cop. Getting away they kill a few more cops.The next step for these out of control hoods is to rip off and kill Mafia kingpin Rod Steiger. Now with the organized crime and the police hunting them, they give no indication of slowing down.Sutherland the director let's Sutherland the actor have full range and he goes with it. Totally fascinating performance.The second one to pay attention to is Kevin Pollak whose camper is commandeered by the gang and he and wife Donna Moreland are taken hostages. Moreland is in proper fear, but Pollak starts stockholming with this gang. Makes for some very interesting behavior and he's fscinating to watch.The shootout, where else but the town that changed it's name from Hot Springs to the name of a radio program as a gimmick. Truth Or Consequences, NM is a fascinating and fast paced caper film where things quite don't work out and a few aren't whom they seem.

This is the kind of movie that you stumble upon, on basic cable, at 3am, when nothing but infomercials are on: entertaining enough to keep watching, though very predictable, clichés up the wazoo, the plot has been done to death, in better movies, and the acting is mostly flat (save for Keifer Sutherland). The excessive violence and gore were a nice touch (I'm a big Tarantino fan, so that explains that), but ultimately, nothing can earn this movie even 5 stars out of 10, because its just written badly and poorly executed, so I'm going with 4 stars, because I didn't absolutely hate it and Vincent Gallo was hot and in his prime, in this movie. A MUCH better drug movie is Drugstore Cowboy (1989).

Decided to gamble on this unknown movie after it was recieving so much praise from my Video Shop members, and its great. I'm quite suprised it didn't get a cinema release..Hopefully after the success of Kiefer Sutherlands "24" it might gain some more recognition from fans of the series. I doubt they will be dissapointed as this is a classy action/thriller with first class acting and a perfect soundtrack..Highly recommended

I was pleasantly surprised at this film,which I just saw for the first time today, and actually I thought this was better than both "Way of the Gun" and "Usual Suspects", because, in my view, TOC,NM didn't try to be too deep with alot of unnecessary twists and turns, and "ooh ya need yer thinkin' caps on fer this one" type of writing/directing style. It was just a fun violent movie. My only disappointment was the inherently predictable "everyone dies Mexican standoff" ending. I am becoming increasingly impressed with Kiefer Sutherland, and when I saw that he directed this too, I was sold. Everyone is always talking about 24, so I need to finally check it out. Phone Booth, Freeway, et al. He is on the path to legendary status ala his dad. Anyway, watch this one if you are into violence and hilarious vulgar arguments amongst the group.