The Big Empty
Struggling actor John Person agrees to drive a blue suitcase from Los Angeles to the small town of Baker, Calif., and hand it over to a mysterious cowboy in return for having his credit card debt of $27,000 paid off. Upon his arrival, John can't find the cowboy but receives an ominously head-shaped package he's supposed to hang onto. While waiting, John gets close to Ruthie, whose psychotic boyfriend, Randy, keeps threatening to kill him.
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- Cast:
- Jon Favreau , Joey Lauren Adams , Rachael Leigh Cook , Daryl Hannah , Kelsey Grammer , Sean Bean , Melora Walters
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Very best movie i ever watch
One of my all time favorites.
best movie i've ever seen.
It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.
I have never in my life seen such a dull plot. They writer and director in that occasion, must have stolen all the movies he liked and yet created something boring. Who produce this movies? I understand the caliber of the actors playing in it, but why people spend money making these junks? The story seems fake from start to end, this damn suitcase is empty when the actors hold it The movie fails even for the obvious, to make you interested what the hell is in the suitcase.The guy is a low life, who has sex ideas coming out of nowhere and getting horny for every chick around. Even the masturbation reference is given in such an amateur way from the writer slash director.If you suffer insomnia, watch 30 minutes of that. On extreme cases take a lethal dose of 1 hour. If by accident or force you watch the whole flick, you will be in a comma, for several years, so make sure you live a note behind for the people who love you. I want a refund for my viewing time.
If you're into the typically self-indulgent (and often too self-conscious) Australian movies, then you might like this -- especially so if you're an Australian, as they do so crowd around their own.Once you get beyond that, you get that 'let's show 'em what we're about mate' production -- sometimes this can be a good thing, but often it seems it's a peculiar side effect of a film produced downunder.There have been lots of great low-budget Australian films, but this one seems to carry on that nuevo mañana película tradición: 'We're from another BETTER planet because Baz Luhrmann says so...' -- even though Luhrmann has been the only Australian to have ever pulled that off.Summed up -- over-the-top weirdness when it could have been better if it had been just plain weird. Acting is entertaining in some spots but the actors seem bemused, uninspired and inattentive (perhaps they didn't know what they were supposed to pay attention to?).Tedious and in spots, predictably unpredictable (if you can grok that). I'd have enjoyed the evening more if I'd have chosen to see a repeat of "Strictly Ballroom" or maybe even "Kangaroo Jack".Cheers
John (Jon Favreau),a failing out of work actor, hesitantly agrees to transport a mysterious blue suitcase, contents unknown, into the remote desert and deliver it to a mysterious person only known as Cowboy in order to wipe his tremendous debt that he's in. By taking the job he doesn't realize that he's in far the weirdest events n his life (including but not limited to, a femme fatale, her crazy jealous boyfriend, Kelsey Grammar as a FBI guy investigating a beheading, and more) in this quirky little subtle comedy that's reminiscent of David Lynch's "Twin Peaks" with a bit of "X-files" thrown in, but not as dark as the former, nor as complex and involved as the latter. Any film that Jon Favreau seems to star in I enjoy (well except for a small handful that I actively detest, but none because of him) and while this film is not as great as his other dark comedies that he's starred in (Very Bad Things and Made), it's still perfectly serviceable, with fine performances and is a pretty good first time effort by Director Steve Anderson. Even if it loses some steam towards the end (and I still can't divorce Kelsey Grammar with his "Frasier" character, no matter how hard I try) My Grade: B
I enjoyed The Big Empty; it has an excellent cast and has a story that develops over the course of the movie. Jon Favreau, Rachel Leigh Cook, Sean Bean, John Gries, Kelsey Grammar, Gary Farmer, and one mystery actor (whose name you'll recognize in the credits but you have to go back to find them). You'll have to watch this movie twice to finally pick up on the clues of what's really happening before your eyes: lots of clues. The director's comments are especially important on how the film was made and how this excellent cast was put together. Rachel Leigh Cook steals every scene she's in: could be the most beautiful actress in Hollywood!!!!!