AnhartLinkin
This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.
Lollivan
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Jenni Devyn
Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
Python Hyena
Go (1999): Dir: Doug Liman / Cast: Sarah Polley, Katie Holmes, Jay Mohr, Desmond Askew, Taye Diggs: An obvious knock off of Pulp Fiction with three story lines weaved into one screenplay. Title doesn't exactly reflect on anything. Sarah Polley just completed a fourteen hour shift but accepts more work when a co-worker leaves for Vegas. She encounters two suspicious individuals who request drugs and since she is in need of cash she goes on a dangerous odyssey to obtain them. The Vegas boys end up burning a hotel room and fleeing from the law. Some subplots do not suit the narrative but director Doug Liman is creative and certainly makes an attempt to present viewers with an outcome that might not be quite so obvious. Polley is superb as drug addict grocer bent on deception to survive. Katie Holmes plays her best friend who ends up separated from Polley but ultimately makes a romantic connection when she turns up at the right place. Jay Mohr plays an undercover cop caught up in an operation where he ends up the one in handcuffs. Desmond Askew and Taye Diggs are on the run from Vegas after accidentally burning a hotel room and causing a fatality with a stripper dancer that results in a gun shot. Although it is not quite Pulp Fiction this is a very clever film about bad decisions that grow into fatal consequences. If not this then go watch Pulp Fiction again. Score: 6 / 10
jm10701
A long (seems longer than 100 minutes), manic and extremely tedious movie about an extraordinarily obnoxious group of people who evidently are supposed to be funny but are only annoying. The most obnoxious actor and character by far is Desmond Askew as Simon, and his namesake middle segment - about four morons in Las Vegas - is the most irritating.The ONLY ten minutes worth watching in this stupid movie are a hilarious Christmas dinner involving characters played by William Fitchner, Jane Krakowski, Scott Wolf and Jay Mohr and a tiny but delightful bit with Melissa McCarthy. Both of those scenes are in the final "Adam & Zack" (Wolf and Mohr) segment, which would have made for a good end if only some of the morons from the insufferable "Simon" segment hadn't reappeared and dragged the movie back down into stupidity.Maybe you need to be a Tarantino fan to appreciate this movie. The 17-year-old straight male goons who have taken over movie theatres probably loved it - especially the middle segment about morons just like them. Except for the scenes with Wolf and Mohr, which seemed like a different movie, I hated it.
Chris Smith (RockPortReview)
Three years after directing the cult hit "Swingers" Doug Liman struck gold again with the hip young ensemble comedy "Go". Uniquely structured over the course of one crazy night in the lives of a bunch of young people in the city of angels.The story follows four main characters Ronna (Sarah Polley), a supermarket cashier, who needs $300 to avoid being evicted from her apartment. Simon (Desmond Askew), Ronna's British co-worker who's is going to Las Vegas for the weekend with a few friends. Then there are Adam and Zack (Scott Wolf and Jay Mohr) a couple of gay soap opera actors who are cutting a deal with the police to help then arrest Simon who is friends with Tod (Timothy Olyphant) a local drug dealer.The movie has a very 90s feel to it when watched today. Pagers were still big with teenagers. Raves were still cool and mysterious. This movies is like a time capsule of a time that really doesn't seem too long ago. Remember the good ole days of 1999, at the height of Y2K paranoia, and people still doing the Macarena what a time to be alive. (Yes, I'm being sarcastic if it isn't obvious). Okay so needing money in a hurry Ronna takes Simon's shift so he can go to Vegas. When Adam and Zack look to score some ecstasy from her in a sting operation she agrees. She goes to Tod to buy the stuff hoping to turn a profit when she resells it, not knowing that Adam and Zack are narcs. Although Tod needs some assurance that Ronna will pay him back, so she leaves her friend Claire (Katie Holmes) as collateral. Needless to say the deal goes bad and Ronna is now totally screwed.Then the movie sort of starts over again but this time from Simon's point of view and his wild adventures in Vegas. Simon and friends get into some pretty crazy sh** and end up on the run from some low level strip club mobsters when Simon shots one of them in the arm. This story will cross path with Tod and Claire near the end.Lastly we've go to the point of view of Adam and Zack and their relationship with officer Burke (William Fichtner) who is overseeing their plea bargain to get and arrest that will lead him to Tod. They will also run into Ronna again at a very inopportune time. Everything in each story in connected in one way or another and makes it joy to watch. The characters are interesting, quirky, and funny, and the story is tightly packed with out a second to spare. It's a pretty fun experience even if it is a little dated. So if your feeling a little nostalgic for the 90s I suggest you "Go".
david-sarkies
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.
