Directed by:
John DahlCinematography:
Marc ReshovskyComposer:
William OlvisCast:
Nicolas Cage, J. T. Walsh, Lara Flynn Boyle, Timothy Carhart, Dennis Hopper, Dwight Yoakam, Dan Shor, Robert Beecher, Craig Reay, Jody Carter, Michael Ruud (more)Plots(1)
A man desperate for a job accepts an offer only to find he has been mistaken for a hit man by a murderous husband. When he tries to warn the unsuspecting wife, the real hit man arrives and he finds himself in much deeper trouble than he wanted. (official distributor synopsis)
Reviews (1)
Contract killings, cheating, a load of money, a corrupt sheriff, a dangerous femme fatale, a psychopathic hitman... and a young guy who got caught up in all of this against his will. Very well written and directed by John Dahl, Red Rock West tells a Coen-like story, but it stays within the confines of a pure American thriller genre movie, without any “artsy” double meanings and allusions that the Coen brothers would have lent to it. Dennis Hopper fits the role of a crazed killer well, but sometimes he is too much of a redneck to be taken seriously. A darker and more dangerous goosebump-inducing killer would have taken the movie up a notch.
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