For The Film Magazine, I wrote in praise of this film and its 'Bizarro Cut' for its 10th anniversary. I think David Wain is one of the best American comedy directors of the 21st century, and how this film's two iterations work in unison represents exactly why I feel that way.

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The Michael Apted way™

The closest Eastwood ever came to making a David DeCoteau movie

grow up you snobs

drugged out, washed up, surreal noirification of a pathetic, repugnant version of three criminals' real lives who match each of the above adjectives. Cage channeling Bogart is the key here, and its genius hit me in the final scene: an exhausted, out of touch criminal yearns for the days of clean, glorified crime and miserably miscalculates each and every encounter. so much fun, so completely wacked out; Cage and Dafoe own this.