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''Straight to Hell,'' the new Alex Cox movie, is no ''Repo Man.'' It's not much of anything, actually. Mostly, it's a cast and a crew waiting around in Spain for a movie to happen around them. It began when Cox had eight months to kill before shooting began on his new movie, ''Walker.'' He and a bunch of mostly musician friends went to Spain and made what they hoped would be a punk spaghetti Western, on Sergio Leone's favorite set. But nothing in the film is as much fun as what one imagines its late-night beer-driven planning sessions must have been like. Although ''Straight to Hell'' takes its title from a song by The Clash, it suggests ''A Fistful of Nothingness'' or ''The Good, the Bad and the Empty.'' | ''Straight to Hell,'' the new Alex Cox movie, is no ''Repo Man.'' It's not much of anything, actually. Mostly, it's a cast and a crew waiting around in Spain for a movie to happen around them. It began when Cox had eight months to kill before shooting began on his new movie, ''Walker.'' He and a bunch of mostly musician friends went to Spain and made what they hoped would be a punk spaghetti Western, on Sergio Leone's favorite set. But nothing in the film is as much fun as what one imagines its late-night beer-driven planning sessions must have been like. Although ''Straight to Hell'' takes its title from a song by The Clash, it suggests ''A{{nb}}Fistful of Nothingness'' or ''The Good, the Bad and the Empty.'' | ||
Part of Cox's problem here is that punk — with whose anarchistic politics his sympathies and sensibilities lie — has been dead for some time, deader even than Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen, the subjects of his last punkerdammerung, ''Sid and Nancy.'' Try as he will, Cox just can't revive punk's defiant whoop here. One wonders if it would have been possible even if ''Straight to Hell'' had a script, which it doesn't. Mostly, it's Cox's friends hanging out, looking forlorn, as if they wished someone would tell them what to do. They includes Joe Strummer, of the defunct Clash, Dick Rude, who wrote the script, and Sy Richardson, who projects a nice quality of centered watchfulness, even though he has nothing to attach it to on this occasion. | Part of Cox's problem here is that punk — with whose anarchistic politics his sympathies and sensibilities lie — has been dead for some time, deader even than Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen, the subjects of his last punkerdammerung, ''Sid and Nancy.'' Try as he will, Cox just can't revive punk's defiant whoop here. One wonders if it would have been possible even if ''Straight to Hell'' had a script, which it doesn't. Mostly, it's Cox's friends hanging out, looking forlorn, as if they wished someone would tell them what to do. They includes Joe Strummer, of the defunct Clash, Dick Rude, who wrote the script, and Sy Richardson, who projects a nice quality of centered watchfulness, even though he has nothing to attach it to on this occasion. | ||
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'''Straight To Hell — Directed by Alex Cox, screenplay by Cox and Dick Rude. Starring Rude, Sy Richardson, Joe Strummer, Courtney Love, The Pogues, Elvis Costello, Dennis Hopper, Grace Jones, Edward Tudor-Pole, Jim Jarmusch and Juan Torres. At the Copley Place, rated R (comic sex play, much comic violence). | '''Straight To Hell — Directed by Alex Cox, screenplay by Cox and Dick Rude. Starring Rude, Sy Richardson, Joe Strummer, Courtney Love, The Pogues, Elvis Costello, Dennis Hopper, Grace Jones, Edward Tudor-Pole, Jim Jarmusch and Juan Torres. At the Copley Place, rated R (comic sex play, much comic violence). | ||
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