The movie opens in a Los Angeles convenience store one late Monday night, where a smalltime drug dealer named Nick (Aaron Eckhart) is trying to decide what coffee brand to buy. His ex-lover Dallas (Paulina Porizkova) and fellow hitman Billy Hill (James LeGros) are getting impatient and tell him to hurry up. Conflicts between Nick and the cashier (Luck Hari) ensue, resulting in Dallas shooting the cashier dead. Though the three attempt to cover up the crime, they are forced to also shoot a police officer (Bari K. Willerford) when he discovers blood on the ground. A former L.A. drug dealer has moved to Houston to make a new life for himself as a married architect. Everything falls apart when he is suddenly visited by one of his former cohorts who comes carrying heroin. Discovering the dope, the architect flushes it down the drain. This sets up a series of tough customers seeking the dope including a Rasta hit-man, an ex-lover Dallas who ties him up and rapes him, a criminal called Billy with a penchant for torture, and a rogue cop. If Roger Ebert hadn't been so harsh about "Thursday," maybe I wouldn't have cared. However, when he wrote that the film "really crossed the line" into offensiveness, my curiosity was naturally aroused. Unfortunately, not only is this film racist, but it's downright boring as well. It's easy enough to be bothered by the deaths of all the blacks and the east Indian in the first hour, but the movie only does this for desperate shock value. Also obviously, this wants to be a "Pulp Fiction"-style flick, but at least Tarantino lets it grow out of the story, rather than just for cheap shock effect, as this movie does. Bottom line: This movie sucks. That the director could put so many things in such a short flick (about 80 min) is a feat in itself .There's never a dull moment indeed.Divided into 'chapters" ,it features one of the most extraordinary gallery of weirdos you can see on a screen.My favorite is Dr Jarvis ("you seem so nervous") cause he is NOT the character you are expecting in this kind of gory thriller(and Skip Woods tells all the gory details).All the actors overact ,their gesticulations make them almost look like cartoon characters ,all are much fun to watch .Many fine lines of black humor .And,ding dong,who's knocking again? Mickey Rourke,no less!This movie is completely off the wall and that's fine with me!What 's the point of using a frying pan when you've got a gun?
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