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Spun [2003]


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Amazon.co.uk Review

Spun is an unclassifiable ensemble piece, intentionally bleached of soulfulness and high on visual invention and comic depravity. Set in northern Los Angeles, where meth freaks lurch from one motel room to another in search of companionship and a score, the film stars Jason Schwartzman as Ross, whose life is rapidly disintegrating. Fielding phone messages from his mother and trying in vain to reach an old girlfriend, Ross spends most of his time on a feverish circuit with the half-mad Cookie (Mena Suvari) and Nikki (Brittany Murphy), the dangerously paranoid Spider Mike (John Leguizamo), and a macho drugmaker called the Cook (Mickey Rourke). Director Jonas Akerlund's story is non-existent, but then again Spun is driven by the blurry, hellish energy of a life lived on speed. An obvious influence is Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream, but Akerlund is interested in nightmarish set pieces than tiny horrors of misfired nerve endings and ravaged time. --Tom Keogh


RUBBISH!
Review date: 2008-08-07 Rating: 2 out of 10

Spun [2003]
This film is absolute rubbish!! A vey poor attempt at being hard hitting and funny at the same time! It comes no where near being either, my advice???? .................. Don't bother!!

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Cover image doesn't match dvd you will receive
Review date: 2008-05-12 Rating: 2 out of 10

The cover image clearly shows the Uncensored Director's Cut, and I bought this expecting that version. However, I received the vanilla edition, which with the p+p, I could have purchased elsewhere for less.

Is the cover image a mistake, or is this a clever ploy to sell more of the vanilla version, by false advertising? Come on Amazon, display the right cover image so that others aren't duped into buying the wrong dvd version!

Ugly film, about ugly people.
Review date: 2007-12-20 Rating: 2 out of 10

This film has nothing to recommend it. It perhaps shows how sad and boring those who think drug taking is cool and interesting are. There is no drama and fails to be comic throughout. There isnt even an interesting soundtrack. All in all a pointless waste of time and money.

I guarantee that you will be disappointed by this film. If you are waivering, then ask yourself why there are so many cheap copies available.

fast random spontaneous fun!
Review date: 2007-07-20 Rating: 8 out of 10

Spun is just crazy. Jason Schwartzman among others are very good, and the crazyness of this film is reminicent of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. its fast, furious crazy and totally random and in total, totaly entertaining.
the drug scenes (pretty much all of it) are crazy and fun and weird camera angles really mess with your head. an MTV generation crazy trip, spun, will leave you spinning

"Spun" is rapidly entertaining
Review date: 2007-06-30 Rating: 8 out of 10

Wow, I just viewed "Spun" the other night and I thought this movie was outrageous. This is sort of a guilt-pleasure movie but you want to take shower afterwards.

"Spun" has an impressive cast of recognized actors. The film is, essentially, about a few days in the lives of a group of drug addicts. There is The Cook (Mickey Rourke, he truly makes this story worth watching), who makes the drug (speed) and sells it to Spider Mike (John Leguizamo), a dealer with a junkie girlfriend, Cookie (Mena Suvari, looking infinitely less attractive than she did in "American Beauty"). One of his clients is Ross (Jason Schwartzman), who does a lot of favours for The Cook and his girlfriend, Nikki (Brittany Murphy).

I was surprised at how funny the film was at times. It doesn't drown us in anti-drug messages, nor does it become one of those, equally tedious, drug films where you feel like the sober driver at a drunken party. The humour is dark, certainly, but funny nevertheless. A lot of it comes from a subplot about Frisbee, Patrick Fugit, who is caught by a couple of TV policemen (Peter Stormare and Alexis Arquette) and is told he will be let off if he helps them get Spider-Mike. I will only say of the resulting sequence that he does it with all the subtlety of an undercover policeman with his badge stuck to his forehead.

This is a film with a lot of energy, that seems, like its characters, not entirely sure where it is going, but determined to get there, and quickly. Although I am sure it is boring to be surrounded by people on speed when you are sober, this film almost makes you feel like you are on speed too. The director, Jonas Åkerlund, has directed music videos in the past, and it shows in his impatient filming style, as he plays around with animation, speeded-up camerawork and such like.

I'm not recommending the film for its style though, although I am sure it is the best way this material could get to the screen. I am recommending it because I liked the main characters, which I think will stick in my head for much longer than the animated sex scenes or the split screens. I can imagine an entire film about The Cook and Nikki, or Spider Mike and Cookie, or even just Ross, who absentmindedly keeps leaving a girl handcuffed to his bed for hours/days. What makes "Spun" better than those hypothetical films is that it puts the characters into their own little community, and we feel as if we are watching their everyday, speeded up, sleepless lives. Simply amazing.

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Actor(s):
John Leguizamo
Brittany Murphy
Mena Suvari
Jason Schwartzman
Patrick Fugit

Creators:
Jason Schwartzman (Primary Contributor)
John Leguizamo (Primary Contributor)
Ash R. Shah (Producer)
Bradford L. Schlei (Producer)
Chris Fisher (Producer)
Chris Hanley (Producer)
Clark McCutchen (Producer)
Creighton Vero (Writer)
Will De Los Santos (Writer)

Director(s):

Recording label: Pathe Distribution
Manufacturer: Pathe Distribution
EAN: 5060002831854
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL, Widescreen,
Release date: 2004-04-05
Number of discs: 1
Aspect ratio: 1.77:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 98 minutes
Language: English (Original Language)

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