Cynical, devious and even deviant, The Salton Sea is one psychological thrill ride you don't want to miss.

| Nov 15, 2019

The overall voyage on The Salton Sea is an uneasy one hampered by a confusing story that admits out loud it doesn't know where it's going.

| Dec 17, 2010

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Com boas atuaes de Kilmer e D'Onofrio, o filme tem um roteiro razovel, mas sem foco. Salva-se graas ao interessante personagem principal.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 25, 2003

Marked by an ambitious style and solid performances, but hampered by a story that buries its primary focus until late in the game.

| Original Score: B | Jul 16, 2003

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 2, 2003

Is authenticity too much to ask? It's not as if the various drug subcultures don't have enough humor and tragedy built in that you need to take a detour into Fantasyland.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 78/100 | Dec 7, 2002

It's a sort of rollercoaster ride through the salvaged wreckage of a hundred similar movies.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 27, 2002

Lo lamento, pero este mar no me atrap como para creerle mucho. Una cinta ms, regular y nunca tan buena como el director quiere hacerla parecer, presuntuosa y pasajera...

Full Review | Oct 22, 2002

The result is mesmerizing -- filled with menace and squalor.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 10, 2002

...[Vincent D'Onofrio's] almost insanely entertaining performance essentially takes the film to an entirely different level...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 4, 2002

There's something fundamental missing from this story: something or someone to care about.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 21, 2002

While it's all happening, it's entertaining enough, but when it's finished (in a disappointingly conventional manner), it doesn't seem to have been about very much.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 15, 2002

It turns out to be just another inane druggie thriller with a revenge plot.

| Original Score: C | Sep 10, 2002

Repellent yet intriguing, brutal yet funny, wicked yet strangely compassionate, The Salton Sea is more about mixing genres and styles than illuminating a credible reality.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Aug 23, 2002

By getting myself wrapped up in the visuals and eccentricities of many of the characters, I found myself confused when it came time to get to the heart of the movie.

| Aug 6, 2002

Overall, this examination of manufactured corruption set against a film noirish swagger may not have the in-depth impact like contemporaries L.A. Confidential or Memento, but this Sea is certainly worth swimming in

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 21, 2002

Sacrificing content for style, Caruso gives us a lot to look at but little to ponder.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 20, 2002

Even with a green Mohawk and a sheet of fire-red flame tattoos covering his shoulder, however, Kilmer seems to be posing, rather than acting. And that leaves a hole in the center of The Salton Sea.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 15, 2002