Highly Overrated But Still Good

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Here's a kind of too blander film with not much ingredients, yet is steered by Downey's likable winning performance. He has such a charming magical persona, and it comes over so well here. If only he did a better film. I have a few qualms about the movie, but I don't hate it. I just don't think it was utilized property, just running at 78 minutes, with some stuff that seems to be desperately crammed into it. Downey plays a womanizer/kid's school teacher with a regular pick up line, which is the one memorable line of the film. Most of the good dialogue is given to Downey here. Then suddenly he spots her, Randy (Ringwald, not bad here, quite a maturing professional actress). She's a museum tour guide, who's washed up boozer of a father, with a heart, Flash (Hopper, the film's other top performance) is indebted to a mafia guy (Keitel, Ringwald's older boyfriend), that has her doing some implied whoring. Downey must come up with a heavy sum, to become her prince and save her, but also, manning up too. Really, so much more could of gone into the characters, especially Ringwald's, where I just thought the mafia tie felt wrong, where again, the film's story wasn't utilized properly, in it's attempt to take it's subject, seriously, where the whole thing seemed like a half ingredient film, despite it's great and good performances, some actors painfully wasted. But like I said, it Downey's charm and splendid performance that carries a kind of dull running comedy with edges of drama. It's his soliloquy scenes that are the best, one hot beauty in blue, he chats up, I'll never forget, pre Vanessa Williams.

I watched this movie and found it to be entertaining. I have found Molly Ringwald to be a very good actress plus she is pretty attractive. Robert Downey Jr. is good enough in this one, he has since gotten better. Molly keeps trying to win enough money to get her dad out of debt to a loan shark. Downey plays a roue who is always after any woman that he can get. He uses the same line and it does work on some. That is until he meets Molly, she does have sex with him the first time but tries to shun after. Downey becomes infatuated with her and chases her all over. They end up going to Atlantic City where she bets her paycheck up to $13,000. She then bets it all trying to get her father out of debt. She fails. Then Downey comes along and wins more than her dad owes, pays off her dad's debt and then they apparently hook up for good. Dennis Hopper plays the dad and he is a drunk and a gambler but gives up the booze at the end.

This is hereby submitted for the 'Quotes' - In the scene where Jack is in Randi's apartment, they suddenly are paid an unexpected visit by two thugs Alonzo & Mike. Jack hides in the closet while the two men are pressuring Randi for a large sum of money. Hearing this, Jack falls out of the closet and makes a feeble attempt to help her by claiming he can come up with the dough. The ensuing conversation goes something like this...Alonzo: "You got the money, cupcake?"Jack: "What, you mean ON me?"Alonzo: "ON you, IN you, UP you..?" Harvey Keitel has always been among my favorites for this kind of exchange. Robert Downey does a superb job as well in this movie.

I wish there was a zero out of 10, because this movie should have never been made. It is complete crap and has nothing to do with anything. It is also one of those movies with dubbed in words which makes the movie look really cheap, which it probably was. I was drawn in by Robert Downey Jr. and the very cheap price of the DVD (should have been a dead giveaway). It is disappointing to the very end, which I shouldn't even have attempted to watch. Please for all that is good and holy, do not rent, buy, or even look at this movie. Because of the crazy guidelines, I am going to attempt to tell you how much this movie sucks. First of all, Dennis Hopper is in this poorly written, made, and acted film. He should not have graced the movie with his presence. He should stay forever in Easy Rider. Well, I am tired of writing and hopefully this is ten lines. Again, please do not watch this movie---you will waste precious time that you shouldn't.