Directed by Jon Abrahams
Written by Michael Testone
Starring Jon Abrahams, Mark Webber, Chazz Palminteri and Nicole Elizabeth Berger
MPAA rating: R for violence and language
Running time: 1 hour 41 minutes

by Audrey Callerstrom

During the late 1990s, after Pulp Fiction broke genre conventions, combining humor with violence and a soundtrack that exists as its own piece of art, lots of other filmmakers followed suit. Sometimes they did so with success, like Doug Liman did with Go. Sometimes it felt like the films were tailor-made specifically for the college boy demographic and no one else, like The Boondock Saints. You can’t just throw violence in our face, play a good song, kill off a bunch of people, include a snarky remark, and expect that your audience is still engaged, no matter how much your audience loves Willem Dafoe (and I do).