Sweat, sand, sensual looks snuck between Brolin and Driver, dreamy atmosphere, threats of violence from Spader's overacted, crazy eyed moron, a treasure hunt and general lack of cohesion is all you'll find out here in this desert.
Good for an absent minded watch or for background noise, not much else though. No film will ever be as good as the 2 above titles Against a sun bleached background we find Minnie Driver in her search for an ancestors catch of diamonds that were lost in a sand dune, many years earlier.
Stuart Wilson is the 4th member of this cast who was involved with Minnies mother. I loved Slow Burn. It's a morality tale, a simple yet extreme one, but the depth of the characters, all played with superb precision by highly competent actors, ensures that you never quite know what's coming. The two crims are poles apart as personalities, and neither is quite a killer, which leads to several tense standoffs.
The standout, however, is Minnie Driver. She emerges from her complex character as a most usual yet highly engaging, and appealing, not to mention beautiful, adventurer.
She knows survival. It's really something to watch her fix a truck. The music was awesome, capturing the desert. The filming techniques were highly competent. There are several memorable images. Slow Burn is an easy movie to enjoy. Minnie Driver plays a woman looking for diamonds lost by her ancestors out in the desert, when she stumbles upon two criminals Spader and Brolin who have miraculously stumbled upon the diamonds on accident, and who quickly take her captive.
Driver has to figure out how to get the diamonds to herself and try to ditch her captors, while a mysterious old friend, Stuart Wilson, watches the events unfold from a distance and narrates Driver's past. Minnie Driver makes an adequate lead, but it's James Spader who makes this movie. He plays a real goon; a rat-like voice and the only one with a gun. He gets increasingly desperate to escape his purgatory in the middle of nowhere and make the diamonds his.
His mentally slow but good-hearted partner in crime, Brolin, and the antics of Driver lead his character. A great performance that kept me hooked, despite reading the other reviews. Great cinematography to this movie.
It's all shot in the desert, and the dry heat is beautifully captured. Ditto for the costumes. Spader and Brolin's bumbling conmen aren't used to the weather, and their faces are chapped and blistered in startlingly realistic fashion. The movie's biggest problem is Stuart Wilson's bizarre, almost random narration.
His character isn't very well set up in the beginning and you spend most of the movie trying to figure out his relevance to the story. It's purpose is a way to wrap up the loose ends, but I would have liked the film more if it had just abandoned the explanation of the past and made instead a character study of this trio.
Overall, I recommend it. It's unbelievable and disheartening to see Sleepy 6 April This film is a blatant tribute to that film and the book it's based on. To be a serious movie-watcher and not to have seen it, is like being interested in drama and having never read Shakespeare. Yeah, sorry, but I saved you 90 minutes. Laaaaaame dialogue. Josh Brolin plays "mentally challenged," and he lives, only because he lets Minnie combat the aggressor on her own.
Total waste of time. Here's a prime example. You feel like you're the one lost out in the desert. I only watched this for Spader and Driver. Spader is almost unrecognizable which is the only interesting thing about this movie. So the backers got feel the burn as well. D Airey 28 September The dialog itself was good, but the overall story was incomprehensible. Some additional plot holes that need to be mentioned: Frank must have known where the diamonds were if he buried Catalina, so why the heck would he let Trina spend her entire life in a vain search for the diamonds?
If Trina saw the diamonds in her Mom's backpack, why would she spend her life in a vain search for the diamonds? Do we seriously believe a 12 year old would shoot her mother because she saw someone fondler her breasts? Why did Trina put the diamonds back in the box? Other than McGuyver, who the heck has all the materials for a forge in the back of their vehicle? But the Trina's parents are mysteriously deceased and she Minnie Driver , one time grown , goes on the search a box of missing diamonds against the advice of Frank Stuart Wilson , an old parents friend.
Meanwhile, Trina looks around , the treasure has already been found by two escaped convicts James Spader, Josh Brolin and take Trina hostage and steal her car. When the car is crashed , Trina attempts to dupe both cons against one another and so she can catch the valuable stash of diamonds.
Then they're forced to struggle for stay alive , with no water, in a desperate quest for survival. This is a predictable adventure involving valuable diamond smuggling , it is an intriguing story that contains lust , ambition and betrayal. Packs suspense , thrills , ending twists and a little bit of action. Recounts the life survival story of a trio along a remote desert. But the director doesn't focuses totally on desperate quest for survival , choosing instead to focus on all aspects about ambition , lust and greed and including a brief psychological studio.
The motion picture was middlingly directed by Christian Ford in his first and only one movie. Rating : Average though entertaining. Details Edit. Release date September 12, United States. United States. A fuego lento. George Maya. Heather Foley. Anthony Marinelli. Elsa Zamparelli. Genres adventure thriller.
Tell me about the diamonds again, George Upgrade to remove ads. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Sloan McBride is a rock star from the 80s who is trying to keep her head above water as her career slowly heads down the tubes. Jenny is a younger girl who worms her way into Sloan's life, seemingly the innocent assistant--but turning into her worst nightmare.
Jenny is secretly out for revenge on Sloan for ruining her mother's career as a singer and causing her to commit suicide. Jenny will stop at nothing to make a fool out of Sloan and is even willing to kill for the change to get closer to her. Will Jenny get the revenge she so desires, or is her revenge founded on delusion? Did you know Edit. Trivia Jennifer Beals actually sang the songs in this film and her fake video actually appeared on MTV.
Connections References All About Eve User reviews 4 Review. Top review. It is a pretty standard psycho with an agenda flick that happens to be set in the music business.
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