The Big Empty - Press Archive - Chud Review

Source: CHUD
18 November 2003

 

11.18.03
By Dave Davis
Contributing sources: Artisan

 

We give Artisan a few knocks around here, mostly because they seem to have

an endless supply of bad movies they release on DVD and send us for review,

but they do still occasionally put out an interesting indie.

 

I hadn't heard a thing about The Big Empty (which opens in limited release

this Friday), but it could be a sleeper. In the film, Jon Favreau is a struggling

actor who gets paid to deliver a suitcase to a trucker to a dinkhole California

town. The eclectic cast includes Kelsey Grammar, Rachael Leigh Cook, Daryl

Hannah, and Sean Bean as a leather trenchcoat-wearing hardcase.

 

I admit, it does look a little like one of those meandering self-aware post-

Tarantino crime-comedy-thrillers that flooded video shelves after Reservoir

Dogs and Pulp Fiction. But the trailer amused me, and I'm not usually let

down by Favreau's decisions as an actor, filmmaker and dinner host, so

I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt.

 

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