To be stuffed with extreme violence and still be boring takes some doing, but this offbeat action farce-thriller achieves it in style. An unbelievably star-studded cast, including Brad Pitt, Val Kilmer, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, Chris Penn, Samuel L Jackson and Christopher Walken, all presumably saw something in this raucous and sometimes embarrassing script that doesn't manifest itself on the screen. You could fear the worst from the opening. 'To this day,' drones heroine Patricia Arquette, 'the events that followed seemed like a distant dream. They changed our lives forever.' When new hubby Christian Slater comes back from blasting her pimp to hell and stealing millions in cocaine, she tells him that `I think what you did was so romantic'. It gets less romantic when the Mafia gets on their trail, headed by Walken (who disappears after one scene) while the happy couple has dreams of selling their booty to a hophead Hollywood producer. The orgy of sadism and violence that follows is like an old-fashioned Disney comedy with an adult certificate. The characters are all dislikeable and their performances pitched at high-decibel level.