These sort of genre deconstruction films just don't thrill me in any way. I don't mind watching them, but afterwards I always feel like "so what?". I also gotta say that Jeff Bridges has never done anything for me, and John Heard's performance is alternately compelling and embarrassing. Having said that, I did enjoy the movie, to a mild degree. I did find the characters interesting. Overall, it's just not kind cup of tea.

The movie gets points for a quirky comedy/thriller, but it ultimately doesn't work well--mainly because of the acting/casting of John Hurt and LIsa Eichorn. (Bridges is solid in this.) Hurt's one-eyed, limping and scruffy look makes him seem like a bad parody of a Blackbeard. It could have been a good film.

It's too bad this film insists on some loose thriller plot-injections (complete with jarringly lame ending), because as a character portrait it's superb. Bridges is, as indeed he was in many of his earlier roles, somewhat dull, but Eichhorn is a low-key, tormented wonder and Heard delivers a wild, sputtering, frenzied career best as the titular Cutter.

921

This turned out to be a major disappointment. For some reason I just found it to be tedious and dull from the beginning. Maybe it is not my kind of film.

#978

# 831

Very good.

OK yeah yeah yeah it has a cult following. It still feels like an inferior retread of _Who'll Stop the Rain_

Excellent and under-appreciated comedy-drama with noirish elements that deserves to be much more widely seen. Very fine performances by the principals.

Outstanding character-driven film that doesn't spoon-feed its audience. Heard is so good in this that I don't understand why he didn't get more famous. And Lisa Eichhorn--what a great role and what a performance. I was really touched by Mo and the way that the film included her; female characters don't usually get that kind of treatment.

922