4.0 out of 5 stars
there's no Alice in this Wonderland, July 19 2004
This review is from: Wonderland (DVD)
Val Kilmer (Spartan, The Salton Sea) plays legendary porn king John C. Holmes during the time of the grizzly Wonderland murders in 1981. This centers around Holmes and the people around him, the fame, the drugs and the sex. Kilmer plays Holmes to the spark of the match. It's not like Boogie Nights because if you compare them together, then your dumb. I don't think the bludgened any one in Boogie Nights with a steel pipe. Plus Boogie Nights had a massive amount of nudity and this didnt. It had like one little scene where Val Kilmer and Kate Bosworth (Blue Crush, The Rules OF Attraction) are banging each other in Carrie Fisher's (Princess Leia) bathroom. The supporting cast include Josh Lucas (The Deep End, who delivers a mean role), a nice turn for Dylan McDermott (Tv's The Grid and The Practice), Ted Levine (buffalo bill in The Silence Of The Lambs) as another cop, hmm, Franky G. ( The Italian Job2003) in like his 3rd movie. an excellent Lisa Kudrow (Tv's Friends) as Kilmer's ex-wife Sharon Holmes. Tim Blake Nelson(Cherish), Eric Bogosian (Under Siege 2) as Eddie Nash, Janeane Garofalo (wet Hot American summer) in a small role, Natasha Gregson Wagner (stranger Than Fiction) in a small role as well.
Faison Love(Made)and Christina Applegate( Tv's Jesse) are also in a small role and a short cameo by the one and the only Paris Hilton (the classic paris hilton sex tape, which I havent seen yet). All in all I..ME....thought this movie was good. Blah to the rest of your snippy people. I have my own taste
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3.0 out of 5 stars
A peice of history, July 13 2004
This review is from: Wonderland (DVD)
I feel that the Wonderland Murders helped magnified the drug scene during the early 80's. The footage about John Hohmes is completely true according to what is known about due to public record, and the murders were very sadistic to say the least. I bought the tape because it is a piece of history of the era that some of us wish to forget. The characters( Josh Lucas, Dylan McDermont, Lisa Kudrow,Val Kilmer,etc.) played in a difficult roles to let us see what happen in real life. Unfortunately, it is my firm believe that anyone who would watch this tape remember that the Wonderland gang was just as vicious as Eddie Nash was!
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