Commonly pegged as a thriller, this plays more like a gonzo parody of the paranoia cinema of Frankenheimer and Pakula. Bridges is uncharacteristically dull, a cipher around whom an outrageous plot unfurls with undoubtedly the funniest performances Huston and Perkins ever gave. The cast, apart from Bridges, is extremely impressive and the film has a certain freewheeling charm but it's all pretty uneven and everyone involved seem just the slightest bit hung over.

A witty, well-made assasination thriller. All all-star cast, with Bridges doing justice to the lead.

fantastical interludes seeming to exist outside of plot, character, and the film's very aesthetic are never explained, key narrative revelations make no sense, belinda bauer reveals herself to be one of the most beautiful women who ever lived: paranoid post-vietnam america through the lens of a ramshackle satirist, funded by drug dealers.

Good film.