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75The movie is like the low-rent, road show version of those serious drug movies where everybody is macho and deadly.
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75Spun is accomplished, but it's also numbing. It's hard to have much connection to people who never connect with each other.
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70Akerlund and crew use their full arsenal of lenses and editing techniques in service of leaving you spun, but it's undeniable that this movie was produced by steady hands and thoughtful minds.
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70A swaggering journey into hell that conveys a chortling amusement at its own apocalyptic imagination.
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67The movie is both harrowing and funny, but I’m not sure the filmmakers would agree with everyone about which scenes are which.
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67Some will hate this film, but there's something delectably junky about it -- like a bright colored candy glistening from a gutter, you just have to look at it.
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63Makes you want to run home and shower, but Rourke's performance gets under your skin.
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63Rourke and Roberts! Dueling kings of B-movie excess and cable-TV schlock, together again on the big screen! Talk about chemistry!
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60Yes, it’s offensive, stupid and loud, but its cartoonish, macabre wit should be evident to anyone with a brain in the first ten minutes. Whether it’s funny or not, though, is another matter entirely. Approach with extreme caution -- and/or rubber gloves.
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60Outrageously grungy and whacked-out walk on the wild side.
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50Has no insights, no point, no urgency and no importance.
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50You can't accuse the film of making speed addiction look glamorous, but the freak-show kick is too compelling for it to be called cautionary.
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50It's like the longest just-say-no commercial in history, only you'd say no not because drugs are evil but because you don't want to get a serious foot fungus.
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40The biggest problem with Spun is that it's really just about speed (and editing). And speed, like most other drugs, is in and of itself boring.
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40As the cowboy-hatted wild man who cooks up speed in his motel-room lab, Rourke, who looks at home in his tattoos, is mesmerizingly grungy. He strikes a rare note of authenticity in this otherwise phony fandango.
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38This is a gleefully repulsive movie. Spun is bound to be described as bold and cutting-edge by those who confuse shock value with achievement. Most people, however, will just long for a shower after it's over.
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38Both a madcap comedy and a cautionary tale about the dangers of drug abuse. But it's not funny or smart enough to work as either one, let alone to strike a balance.
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38Spun is quickly exposed as being all flash, no substance.
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38Because Spun is so plotless it's almost avant-garde, we're meant to be delighted with its assortment of set pieces.
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38Spun is so hip it hurts.
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30A dark comedy about speed freaks that feels like it was directed and edited by someone in the midst of a methamphetamine jag.
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30The traumatized critic must struggle to avoid capital letters in urging patrons to steer clear of the colorfully cast but unbearable Spun.
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30Maybe it's the sight of Leguizamo running around dressed only in boots and a well-placed sock that does her in, or maybe it's just that she's seen this movie too many times before. She isn't the only one.
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30The title (which translates, essentially, as "burned out") is an apt description of the film itself: a hot and smoldering shell.
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25What's more annoying than the screenplay's relentless assaultiveness is its odd, sordid cuteness.
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20The freak show of druggy squalor and the wired sexuality of hardcore kink and flaccid cocks float by solely for our carnivalesque amusement.
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10A turkey of Rubenesque proportions.
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DaveD9Superb druggy slice of life. Perfect mix of style and content. All the cast are on top form, and Rourke is effortlessly good as The Cook.
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Mr.Screenjaw10Completely missed by critics. there is no plot to meth. i liked spun for all the reasons the hacks hated it. bravo.
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CiscoP.9Just like a movie about speed should be, fun, fast and disconnected, this characters are much more real than some people would like to believe.