Two elderly criminals spend their final night in Los Angeles, California at the Golden Eagle Hotel prior to their departure to Las Vegas, Nevada, to lead a life without crime. Unfortunately, on the hottest night of the summer, these two ex-criminals seemingly get caught in the malice of prostitutes, pimps, drunken bums, fighting monkeys, and young runaways.
One just waits grimly for the next shock without developing much attachment to the characters.
– David Hunter,
Hollywood Reporter,
2 May 2002
rotten:
These are textbook lives of quiet desperation.
– Chuck Wilson,
L.A. Weekly,
29 Apr 2002
rotten:
Never decides whether it wants to be a black comedy, drama, melodrama or some combination of the three.
– Lou Lumenick,
New York Post,
26 Apr 2002
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The director seems to take an unseemly pleasure in [the characters'] misery and at the same time to congratulate himself for having the guts to confront it.
– A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
26 Apr 2002
rotten:
Another in-your-face wallow in the lower depths made by people who have never sung those blues.