The message of The Boost is a good one but the execution comes off as high camp. Everything is so over the top it's hard to imagine that the filmmakers ever tried to make a serious message movie.
The film's premise has James Woods, a high pressure salesman, and his wife Sean Young, hitting hard times and turning to cocaine.
Much like Jack Nicholson in The Shining, I find it hard to tell the difference between the "before" and "after" James Woods. He starts off as a psychotic madman and becomes a DRUG CRAZED psychotic madman overnight, basically the same guy!
It's all fun and games until Woods has an overdose, giving the director an excuse to show him urinate all over himself! Thanks for that image, Mr. director!
He and Young then go out looking for coke and stumble upon a dead guy with a missing eyeball, scaring these two straight for awhile anyway!
Coke comes back with a vengeance and we're subjected to the disturbing sight of a very pregnant Sean Young taking a nasty fall down the beach front equivalent of The Exorcist stairs!
It's not over yet! Woods switches from coke to quaaludes and turns into a couch potato, that is until an aged whore introduces him to crack. He then proceeds to slap his wife and come up with the greatest comeback plan ever devised!
Everything about this film moves so fast that it appears like the movie's editor was snorting cocaine too.
The film's premise has James Woods, a high pressure salesman, and his wife Sean Young, hitting hard times and turning to cocaine.
Much like Jack Nicholson in The Shining, I find it hard to tell the difference between the "before" and "after" James Woods. He starts off as a psychotic madman and becomes a DRUG CRAZED psychotic madman overnight, basically the same guy!
It's all fun and games until Woods has an overdose, giving the director an excuse to show him urinate all over himself! Thanks for that image, Mr. director!
He and Young then go out looking for coke and stumble upon a dead guy with a missing eyeball, scaring these two straight for awhile anyway!
Coke comes back with a vengeance and we're subjected to the disturbing sight of a very pregnant Sean Young taking a nasty fall down the beach front equivalent of The Exorcist stairs!
It's not over yet! Woods switches from coke to quaaludes and turns into a couch potato, that is until an aged whore introduces him to crack. He then proceeds to slap his wife and come up with the greatest comeback plan ever devised!
Everything about this film moves so fast that it appears like the movie's editor was snorting cocaine too.