As Good As It Gets

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

The film „Dolan's Cadillac" addresses the sad issue of the traffic of illegal immigrants in the United States, in this case women destined for prostitution rings. Jimmy Dolan is one such trafficker. The part is played in a masterful way by Christian Slater who manages to appear as a particularly vicious and spiteful character. He is especially brilliant in the last scene. The film uses the old time narrative favorite of taking a Mr Everybody, in this case Wes Bentley in the part of a school teacher, placed in a situation he is not cut for, thus ensuring viewer identification with the main protagonist. A short thriller – unlike some other material by Stephen King – with good montage and music.

I don't get it. Why Hollywood makes so many movies where they make us feel sympathy for the villain? Why so many movies about drug pushers, drug users, the scum of society with no redeeming values in film after film, almost all of them alike scene after scene? If we saw one, we saw them all. The detective (police, whatever) whose wife is killed and he has to avenge her death by himself, etc. How many times have we seen that??? I know while I write this, I must sound like a sort of a preacher, but maybe it's because I don't have the ease of language to express myself in a deeper way about what I feel. I'm not shocked by this sort of films, I'm just BORED. How many improbabilities we see throughout the length of this film? Too many to name them. Just a few: Robinson's girlfriend finished that product she was using so much and leaves the apartment building in a rush at midnight to get more of it, when she knew very well her life was in danger.She would never have done that in real life. Dolan speaks CONSTANTLY on his cell phone, why then, instead of screaming his head off when he's trapped in his Cadillac, he doesn't call members of his gang and ask them to rescue him?How could ONE PERSON (Robinson) excavate such an enormous crater BY HIMSELF!! and then cover it again BY HIMSELF!!! (Superman in disguise?)What about road traffic?Road traffic DISAPPEARED completely from that area during the whole time of this incident!!! Really..., they are asking us to withhold judgment in such large a degree for any thinking viewer...But obviously some people enjoy this type of films very much (otherwise they would never be done). The end is perfectly ridiculous.

In Las Vegas, the school teachers Robinson (Wes Bentley) and his wife Elizabeth (Emmanuelle Vaugier) are trying to have a baby. While riding a horse through the desert after hours, Elizabeth witnesses the execution of two coyotes and an illegal immigrant by the human trafficker Jimmy Dolan (Christian Slater) and she decides to report to the police. However, she loses her cellular and Dolan tracks her address and threatens her. Elizabeth goes to the FBI with Robinson and they move to a safe house under the protection of two agents. When Elizabeth sneaks from the house to buy pregnancy tests, her car explodes and she dies. The disturbed Robinson decides to buy a powerful revolver and learn how to shoot to revenge Elizabeth killing Dolan. But the mobster and his henchman find him in a bar and beat up on him. Robinson goes to the rock bottom of his life but he retrieves and plots a sophisticated revenge."Dolan's Cadillac" is a dark tale of revenge based on a short story of Stephen king. Christian Slater is a great sadistic villain but unfortunately Wes Bentley with his wooden expression and Emmanuelle Vaugier with her cynical smile are not convincing in their roles of school teachers that have their lives destroyed due to the sequence of stupid attitudes of Elizabeth. Anyway, movies about revenge are usually engaging and this one is above average. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Sede de Vingança" ("Thirsty of Revenge")

As a lifelong reader of Stephen King, I got this on-sale-for-five-bucks-at-redbox movie expecting an epic flop. I didn't even realize they'd made a movie out of what is (I shiite thee not) one of my top 3 favorite Stephen King stories of all time, but I saw it had Christian Slater and Blackheart from Ghost Rider and...gravy.Honestly, I bought the movie thinking that Slater was the protagonist, so imagine my shock when I found out he was playing Dolan. When I read the story as a kid, I think I imagined Dolan as more of a Robert DiNiro, Al Pacino or even Mickey Rourke. Given those biases, I really had a hard time buying Slater as Dolan. At first. However, I really saw him come into his own in those scenes where he's looking at the girls, the very end in the Caddy and some of his sleazier moments. Still, I think that Slater was a little too young-looking to portray a gangster.I'll agree with most other reviewer's assertions that the last third was the best part. But I will add that even if the rest of the movie completely sucked, it was still worth it to see those two play out the final scene that Stephen King painted years ago. The scenes where Richardson stood screaming at his shredded gloves was right out of my imagination. Fantastic.In short, I give about 15 minutes of this movie a 4 and the rest a 9, so it averages out to an eight. Definitely worth the $5 I paid for it by easily a factor of four.