Touches You

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The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This unusual movie offers a realistic approach on the whole "lonely avenger" topic. You see a school teacher getting a breakdown after his wife gets killed by a car bomb ordered by Mr. Dolan (Christian Slater). He loses himself in hatred, despair and revenge plans, giving up everything he holds dear to avenge the death of the woman he loved.This is where things took a darker, deeper turn than I would have thought possible. For you see, once the teacher traps his nemesis into a hole and starts burrying him alive, Dolan starts arguing to convince him to stop. And he's damn good at it. For example he states that he only killed for business, not for pleasure. And that the teacher has already become something far more evil than Dolan ever was by commiting this act.This movie will have you thinking about right, wrong and the question whether or not the end justifies the means long after it's over. My only complain is that it lacked Christian Slater. He played a minor part in this movie and you didn't see him much.

I didn't need to see this movie. I don't think anybody did, but I read the short story many times over the years. It's one of my favourite Nightmares and Dreamscape shorts from Stephen King and I was intrigued to see how they stretched the plot to make it into a feature length film! You don't need a synopsis from me, not on IMDb. Jimmy Dolan is a criminal living and operating out of Las Vegas. When keeping his nose clean means dispatching of Robinson's wife, it destroys his life and leads him to act out on the urge for revenge as the authorities fails to pin the crime on Dolan and his goons.What I liked about the King story was that there was nothing to like about any of the characters, all but Tinker. He wrote it from Robinson's perspective and it was nothing short of psychopathic, which is refreshing compared to most revenge stories.In the movie, the likability factor pretty much stays the same, but the makers seem to have made a point of giving Dolan and his crew all the entertainment value and most of the screen time. Personally, I'd have watched an hour and a half of Robinson planning and executing his revenge trip, but we're given snippets of him going through his trauma and falling apart and, sorry to say, it bored me.Wes Bentley has never been one to watch, for me at least. It might just be the angry kid scowl permanently etched into his face, but here he does a great job and pulls off some very natural but often overlooked acting.Christian Slater is just Christian Slater as always. I'm not saying he's incapable of acting because he puts some great energy into his role, but he's one of those actors that isn't cut out for defining different personalities. His face is incapable of change, it seems.The most important part of the movie, now that my problems are out of the way, is Bentley's Robinson giving up school to join the road crew in the Nevada desert. That's when King's storytelling really transfers well, and the addition of Tink and Danny really add texture to this film's character.The revenge plot itself and how Robinson goes through with it are superb. I found myself smiling most of the way through it and feeling satisfied by the end credits. Odd that a film can be so generic and run-of-the-mill until the final half hour blows you away, right? If you ever give it a try, read the story first and just skip to the end, that's my advice!

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.

Ageless Christian Slater is the only thing in this really bad movie that is remotely interesting and it isn't enough to pull this out of the ditch of dull, dismal and disastrous movies. The other actors are so wooden and lifeless that they barely register. The protagonist mumbles, cries, whines, and looks like he is about to fall asleep most of the time.It manages to make Las Vegas look bland and a Stephen King story to be agonizingly boring. When Dolan is on screen spouting his racist, misanthropic monologues the film manages to be palatable but that's it. The script is unintentionally funny and can actually cause spontaneous outbursts of laughter. This is lame and listless with the last twenty minutes painful to watch with the two characters constantly yelling at each other.A straight to video bomb that is as dumb as dirt and clunks along with one boring scene after another. After seeing this unpleasantness you will have to open a window just to get some air and remove the stale stench of decrepitude.