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Box Office: $626,750
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CONSENSUS
A slick Tarantino-inspired movie that is not for everyone.
CAST & CREW
Val Kilmer, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Goldberg
Directed by D.J. Caruso
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SYNOPSIS
Caught up in the permanent nighttime of the habitual methamphetamine user, Danny Parker (Val Kilmer) and his friends close the curtains so they can't tell what time of day it is. But while his associates revel in their highs, Danny is haunted by his previous life as Tom Van Allen, a trumpet player who lost his wife (Chandra West) in the crossfire of a shoot out. more...
MPAA RATING
R, strong violence, drug use, language, and some sexuality
RUNTIME
1 hour, 43 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Apr 26, 2002
Video: Sep 10, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Warner Bros.
GENRE
Dramas, Drugs, Money
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Salton Sea Site
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 "The cumulative effect of the movie is repulsive and depressing."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
 "Nearly manages to be what "Blow" couldn't - a perpetual night party that generates a sick fascination to the bitter end."
-- Jeanne Aufmuth, PALO ALTO WEEKLY
"It has the ability to offend and put off everyone, but it holds you with its outrageousness."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
"has a plot full of twists upon knots...and a nonstop parade of mock-Tarantino scuzbag types that starts out clever but veers into overkill."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"Feature debuter D.J. Caruso directs a crack ensemble cast, bringing screenwriter Tony Gayton's narcotics noir to life."
-- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"It's a sharp movie about otherwise dull subjects."
-- Tim Cogshell, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"Don't judge this one too soon - it's a dark, gritty story but it takes off in totally unexpected directions and keeps on going."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"There’s something fundamental missing from this story: something or someone to care about."
-- Mark Dujsik, MARK REVIEWS MOVIES
"Even with a green Mohawk and a sheet of fire-red flame tattoos covering his shoulder, however, Kilmer seems to be posing, rather than acting. And that leaves a hole in the center of The Salton Sea."
-- Marshall Fine, JOURNAL NEWS
"What the director can’t do is make either of Val Kilmer’s two personas interesting or worth caring about."
-- Steven D. Greydanus, DECENT FILMS GUIDE
"A special kind of movie, this melancholic film noir reminded me a lot of Memento..."
-- JoBlo, JOBLO'S MOVIE EMPORIUM
"What makes Salton Sea surprisingly engrossing is that Caruso takes an atypically hypnotic approach to a world that's often handled in fast-edit, hopped-up fashion."
-- Mary Kalin-Casey, REEL.COM
"Caruso sometimes descends into sub-Tarantino cuteness ... but for the most part he makes sure The Salton Sea works the way a good noir should, keeping it tight and nasty."
-- Glenn Kenny, PREMIERE MAGAZINE
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"The Salton Sea has moments of inspired humour, though every scrap is of the darkest variety."
-- Liz Braun, JAM! MOVIES
"The script, like the character Danny, is complex and needs your attention..."
-- Robin Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"By getting myself wrapped up in the visuals and eccentricities of many of the characters, I found myself confused when it came time to get to the heart of the movie."
-- Ryan Cracknell, REELTALK MOVIE REVIEWS
"Even if it made its original release date last fall, it would've reeked of a been-there, done-that sameness."
-- Michael Dequina, MR. BROWN'S MOVIES
"[A] slummer."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"By the time you reach the finale, you're likely wondering why you've been watching all this strutting and posturing."
-- Cynthia Fuchs, POPMATTERS
"The result is mesmerizing -- filled with menace and squalor."
-- Mark Halverson, SACRAMENTO NEWS & REVIEW
"Tony Gayton’s script doesn't give us anything we haven't seen before, but director D.J. Caruso's grimy visual veneer and Kilmer's absorbing performance increase the gravitational pull considerably."
-- MaryAnn Johanson, FLICK FILOSOPHER
"Nicely combines the enigmatic features of 'Memento' with the hallucinatory drug culture of 'Requiem for a Dream.'"
-- Harvey S. Karten, COMPUSERVE
"An empty, ugly exercise in druggy trance-noir and trumped-up street credibility."
-- Tom Keogh, SEATTLE TIMES
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ROTTEN 54%
Avg. Rating: 5.6/10 |
"If there's no art here, it's still a good yarn -- which is nothing to sneeze at these days."
-- Sam Allis, BOSTON GLOBE
"Eccentric enough to stave off doldrums, Caruso's self-conscious debut is also eminently forgettable."
-- Michael Atkinson, VILLAGE VOICE
"A thriller with an edge -- which is to say that it doesn't follow the stale, standard, connect-the-dots storyline which has become commonplace in movies that explore the seamy underbelly of the criminal world."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"If you are into splatter movies, then you will probably have a reasonably good time with The Salton Sea."
-- Ray Conlogue, GLOBE AND MAIL
"By and large this is Mr. Kilmer's movie, and it's his strongest performance since The Doors."
-- Gary Dowell, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"I liked it because it was so endlessly, grotesquely, inventive."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"The movie's accumulated force still feels like an ugly knot tightening in your stomach. But is that knot from dramatic tension or a symptom of artistic malnutrition?"
-- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES
"Too slick and manufactured to claim street credibility."
-- Desson Howe, WASHINGTON POST
"All the movie's narrative gymnastics can't disguise the fact that it's inauthentic at its core and that its story just isn't worth telling."
-- Mick LaSalle, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"Has all the scenic appeal of a cesspool."
-- Glenn Lovell, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
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"Starts out ballsy and stylish but fails to keep it up and settles into clichés."
-- Kevin N. Laforest, MONTREAL FILM JOURNAL
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* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Salton Sea" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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