Last year in The Thin Red Line Nick Nolte turned in an amazing performance as Lt. Col. Gordon Tall, an over the top leader badly in need of a valium.  Little did I know that this was just a warm up for this years performance in Breakfast of Champions .  This movie is set in a small town that has a badly contaminated creek running through it.  I came to the conclusion that instead of radioactive waste as the film would have us believe the creek must be contaminated with LSD.  This is the only explanation I can come up with for the behavior of  nearly all the characters in this movie.  If the Academy had an award for strangest movie of the year would be my nominee.  But, on second thought, a movie does not deserve an award if it cannot at least pass the preliminary test of being entertaining.  If you liked Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas  (I didn’t) you might like Breakfast of Champions.  Otherwise Bruce Willis has two other movies this year that are great movies.  Two out of three isn’t bad.

 

Stephen Van Lydegraf

9/19/1999