Fred Ward is the man yo. This is the Alec I like, not the funny fat man he is today.

lol bizarre and mostly awesome

it's definitely original, but it's not quite as funny or quite as dramatic as i think it should be.

Not bad.

Classic movie! Very funny, and very original.

It's interesting to see some of the basic noir conventions played out in one of the sunniest places imaginable. It's the sort of crunchy lunacy that made a career for Carl Hiaasen. Armitage's movie is peppered with amusing passages, but it's ultimately hampered by a pedestrian visual approach and middling performances by Alec Baldwin (still in the pretty boy coasting era of his career) and Fred Ward.

Excellent. Baldwin is hard to like in this, but impossible to hate, too. As he does one horrible thing after another, you can still see the part of him that wants to change. Just like you can see that part of Leigh believes in him, and part knows better, and is just wrecked by him. Ward is doing his regular Ward-y thing, and it's as enjoyable as always. Really atmospheric film with well-chosen locations and great sets. Would have scored it higher, but it made me too sad.

Pretty good black comedy foreshadowed Armitage's pitch-black Grosse Pointe Blank.