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Andy (Simon Lyndon) & Jess (Kylie Minogue) are living on drugdealing at
raves, until TT (David Field) entrusts Andy with a big deal, but tells him to
carry a gun (which Andy is less than fond of). Soon Andy decides he could need
the money from the deal for himself & Jess, & the 2 try to make a
getaway, with little success, as Andy is picked up by the police (but for some
reason let go after a while), & Jess is taken hostage by TT, who wants her
for himself (& can you blame him) ...
in the meantime, clubber Sem (Joel Edgerton) picks up effeminate John (Ben
Mendelsohn), who has just been beaten up by wannabe-gangstas Joey & Gus
(Justin Rosniak & Matthew Wilkinson), & John repays him the favour by
shagging his girlfriend Cleo (Paula Arundell), while Andy can't do anything but
watch in a very spaced out state (as John was carrying some exquisite pills).
After they have a talk though, everything seems fine between Andy & Cleo
... or is it ?
Cleo's roommate Len (Nathan Page) meanwhile masturbates over DJ Lush Puppy's
(Nathalie Roy) picture & has the fantasy of once meeting her ... which
happens sooner as he thinks, & she feels immediately attracted to him,
& invites him to the club she's DJ'ing this night ... whcih is fine &
dandy, wouldn't Len have to work the late shift in Phil's (Gandhi MacIntyre)
kebab shop that night. To make his dream come true Len decides to abandon his
shop ...
& here is where it gets really silly: everybody's meeting up in Lush
Puppy's club, where Andy frees Jess, the place is raided by the police,
everybody runs away ... & all of a sudden, Len ends up with a gun, & he
has nothing better to do than to immediately rob Phil's kebab shop (don't ask
why), where everybody has since met up. Immeduiately afterwards, Joey & Gus
want to rob the kebab shop, too, & all of a sudden, Len, who has just left,
comes back & shoots Joey in self defense ... & gets together with Lush
Puppy, for good.
Cleo meanwhile has collapsed from o.d.ing on some not quite legal substances
& Sem is oh so happy to take care of her, & Andy & Jess finally
manage to get away with the drug money ...
Somehow it seems this movie has no idea in which way to go: it's part
gangster-tale, part love-story, a bit of crime comedy & at the same time it
tries to be an account of late-90's rave culture ... not that that would
essentially be a bad (or uninteresting) mix, however, all these elements are
put into no intelligible context, all the stories are told rather independently
from each other, only very clumsily interwoven at the end, when each of the
stories has a very disappointing climax.
It's not even that the movie is entirely without its moments, but for the
mst parts it juist consists of unrefleted hommages of then hip directors like
Quentin Tarantino, Wong Kar-wai or Richard Linklater - not the worst source
material I have to admit, but any kind of originality is sadly missing here.
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