The Salton Sea (2002)

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The Salton Sea
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"Val Kilmer makes good drug movies. He rode the snake in The Doors, and now he's tweakin' in The Salton Sea as Danny Parker, a tattooed bottom-feeder whose opening narration insists that you listen to his whole story before making judgments about his immersion in the day-is-night-is-day crank subculture. As dark and brooding as its star's always-solemn face, the movie winds a bit backward, so you find out that Danny's an informant, and back further still, so you find out that he's also seeking revenge for his wife's death and is really named Tom Van Allen. It's only then that you realize that The Salton Sea is not merely about crystal meth, that Danny's not really a junkie, and that scripter Tony Gayton--who also wrote the laughable Murder by Numbers--can tell a compelling crime story after all. With a tag line of "If you're looking for the truth, you've come to the wrong place," the film has the greasy feel of Memento and mimics that movie ... " [More]

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