When I was 18 or 20 I thought this movie was incredible. I'm now quite a few years older and this is just ridiculous. Terrible editing, most everyone turns in an amateur acting performance, the writing is awful. It's still entertaining but not nearly to the degree that it was when it came out, as there have been films that done the premise much better. And all these years later, I don't know how Willem Dafoe's character gets so sweaty and disheveled out of nowhere while explaining the big gun battle.

So bad ass!

It's not the most well edited film. It's not the highest budget film. In fact, there's a lot of things it isn't. But even now, nearing 20 years later, this film is in my top 10 favorite movies of all time. The humor, the soundtrack, and honestly even the underlying theme itself makes the movie worth watching all these years later. It's become a tradition to watch this movie on St. Paddy's Day while drinking a Killian's or a Guiness.

Still one of my favorites.

This does have that _The Room_ quality to its direction; it feels like its made by an alien who’s completely unfamiliar with the genre he’s working in. The editing is quite a thing to behold. There’s zero rhythm to the pace, text and cuts appear in the weirdest places, dumb wailing guitar over random scenes, slow-mo, DnB, random fade-to-black edits, dramatic classical music, continuous flashbacks where a linear structure would’ve sufficed; I wonder what they were on when they made this. Nevertheless, there’s some fun cheese in it (especially whenever Dafoe appears, what a king) and you can’t deny that Irish accents and swearing make for a good combination. However, it seems unsure of whether it wants to be campy or edgy, it’s an odd mix of tones that feels equally gay and dude-bro. I really don’t know how I’m supposed to read certain scenes, because the intent of the director seems so all over the place. Not that it matters anyway, because I’d still be bored regardless. There’s no wit to any of it, and even the action is very underwhelming. Add to that a by the numbers story without any character development, and you have something that’s oddly forgettable despite all of its off the wall choices. It’s truly a bizarre film that was destined to be a cult favourite from the moment it was released, simply because the choices it makes are so wild. For a lot of people that’s enough to be entertained, but I think even most of them would tell you that it’s a piece of shit. 2/10