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Amazon.com:
With Red Rock West and The Last Seduction, writer-director John Dahl established himself as America's leading maker of tough, twisted, funny little neo-noir pictures. Red Rock West is a spare, tight reworking of noirish motifs--the lone man caught in a web of circumstance and betrayal, the rich femme fatale, the corrupt policeman, the wounded military veteran, the homicidal psychopath--that brings to mind classics from Detour to Out of the Past to Bad Day at Black Rock. Cage--warming up for his career-peak (so far) performance in Leaving Las Vegas a few years later--plays an unemployed former Marine (his leg injured in the truck-bombing of the base in Beirut) who stumbles into a nightmarish situation when he stops at a bar in the isolated Wyoming town of Red Rock West. With one fateful step, he's trapped; and no matter how hard he tries, he just can't seem to leave town. The late J.T. Walsh is (as always) splendidly corrupt as the bar owner who harbors some deadly secrets, and Dennis Hopper does a variation on his patented Blue Velvet/River's Edge psycho that suits the treacherous environs of Red Rock West just fine. --Jim Emerson
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Red Rock West
The sponsors of this movie really blew it by not releasing it in the theatres in the United States. They have a gem on their hands that they did not recognize.
The story with all the twists and turns is great. All the actors are very good.
Rating: - Nicholas and the terrible horrible no good very bad day
Red Rock West is intended as a "Hitchcockesque" psycho-drama but really ends up being more of a "Black Comedy" of errors. Nicholas Cage, plays the same character he often does ( the down on his luck man with principles) and does it pretty well, this time his character's luck starts out bad then things go downhill sharply from there. Dennis Hopper plays the same character we often see him as (the cartoonish, mentally unbalanced man capable of anything) and again, does it well.
So here's ... Read More
Rating: - Unknown gem here!
In Red Rock West, Nicholas Cage plays a down-on-his luck drifter who comes to town looking for a job. Getting a tip from a man in a gas station, he heads to a town called Red Rock into a small bar, where the owner inadvertently gives him a job as a hit man who is supposed to kill his wife. Before Michael (Cage) can say no to the man, he is handed a wad of money and instructions on how to kill the bar owner's wife.
What makes this unknown thriller such a great movie is the feeling of mystery ... Read More
Rating:  - Red Eye West
This is one of those thrillers where the protagonist, down on his luck, Nick Cage, cannot get out of a jam no matter where he turns. The inertia of a black crime drags him ever deeper to dastardly consequences. Does the femme fatale, Lara Flynn Boyle bed him or murder him? Does the homicidal husband do Cage in? Will the hired killer, Lyle from Dallas, Dennis the Menace Hooper, knock off everbody? Then there's the bag of money buried in a cemetery; moreover, there's that town, Red Rock West that nobody ... Read More
Rating: - And again...
...a real good movie, I watched it several times, and it does not get boring! Great stuff, a must see for all Cage fans.
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