Amazon.com Customer Reviews
 Rated 1 out of 5
TOTALLY BORING AND VERY SLOW PACED
AFTER A DRUG DEALER IS KIDNAPPED, HIS WIFE MUST PAY A HEAVY RANSOM TO FREE HIM OR WATCH HIM DIE. VERY WEAK FILM. THE MOVIE IS SO SO SLOW PACED AND THERE REALLY IS VERY LITTLE ACTION TO SEE. DREA DE MATTEO AND LILLO BRANCOLO WHO ARE BOTH STARS OF THE SOPRANOS PLAY THE HUSBAND-WIFE DRUG DEALERS. WHILE THE TWO STARS ARE OKAY IN THEIR ROLES, THE MOVIE IS JUST TOO SLOW PACED FOR IT’’S OWN GOOD. OH, AND IF YOU PLAN ON LOOKING AT THIS MOVIE JUST TO SEE ICE-T, HE DOESN’’T SHOW UP IN THIS ONE UNTIL THE MOVIE’’S CLOSE TO OVER, AND HE DOESN’’T DO MUCH OF ANYTHING. ONE OF THE WORST MOVIES I’’VE EVER SEEN. THE SCORE WAS DONE BY SCHOOLY D. Rated 2 out of 5
Why latins are the worst??!!
Movies about latins always enphasize their bad behaviors. Why can’’t a movie be about the good ones like FRIDA!- Rated 2 out of 5
Waste of Talent
Abel Ferrara is the type of director that it is ’’hip’’ to admit following, giving you a certain intellectual air among friends and family. While, Ferrara is definitely not a bad director, his films and cinematic language are not for everyone.
RXmas is his latest film to date, and one of his weakest by far.
The themes of Ferrara’’s cinema are all there yet again,
Drugs,gangs, gloominess,despair,more drugs, inner demons, religious icons and images, redemption and yes still more drugs.In fact there are so much drugs in Ferrara’’s movies, that I suspect there is none left for any other movie!
With Driller Killer (banned in the UK for ages), he gained a reputation as a cult director with an eye for psychological violence and an unrelenting dark atmosphere,and this was reinforced albeit more subtely with King Of New York, his finest film to date, mainly because of Chris Walken’’s performance,(with Harvey Kietel ,his actor of choice).
Bad Lieutenant was yet another controversial visit to familiar territory and themes (yes you guessed it..there is lots of drugs there too), a film so depressing I needed to watch Bambi a couple of times to wash it off!
Ferrara made other films that alternated between the good (Funeral, New Rose Hotel)and the’’what on earth was he thinking about? type ’’ (Blackout, with a tintalizing but empty promise of more than a peck on the cheek between Beatrice Dalle and Claudia Schiffer).
I have to say that RXmas falls directly in the latter category. Not only because Ferrara’’s themes are all revisited one by one, but because there is absolutely no life in the camera or story. The first half of the film I waited for any action to start, to be disappointed by scene after scene of copious amounts of er..drugs..being placed on a glass table. I got the feeling that Ferrara’’s heart and mind were not in this film at all! The only saving grace was The Sopranos’’s Drea de Matteo who gave a solid performance.
You should totally forget about this film,and if you like Ferrara’’s style stick with his better output, and hope that his next film would be light years better than this one, and yes with less drugs!!
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