A raw & gritty classic with a lil extra sprinkled on top for entertainment. Give it time and watch it through.

Excellent movie! Criminally underrated. Everything about this movie is amazing; the cinematography, DJ Caruso's directorial style, Val Kilmer and Vincent D'Onofrio's acting and - above all else - great writing! Also Thomas Newman's score is haunting and heartbreaking. This movie should've won an Oscar

I love love this movie. I've watched it probably 200 times I'll watch it 200 times more it is again one of Val kilmer's underrated movies, but certainly not an underrated performance by Val at all like all of his movies he went above and beyond what most actors can or willing to do he sets himself inside of the character and let's it ride and let's not forget about Vincent's dinofrio's part in this movie fantastic as always. So those of us with ADHD or add or any kind of attention span problems do have to sit and pay attention because there are twists and turns everywhere in this movie it's a story about grief and revenge and moving on I really hope you watch this because I think if you are true movie fan especially if you're a true Val kilmer and Vincent real fan you will love this I promise you.

This movies badass. Do yourself a favor and watch it.

Absorbing direction is at the core of this visually-inspired and slightly cerebral low class crime drama.

Great performance by val kilmir. worth watching for his acting. Intense film as good as a tarantino film.

Born at the Salton Sea looking for the truth you won't find it Directed by SJ Caruso Val Kilmer is a man dragged into a world of thugs and speed junkies Kilmer plays Danny Parker, his wife is murdered during a drug home invasion at the Salton Sea so he looks to start fresh elsewhere Jimmy "The Finn" he befriends while rescuing a woman Collette from her own demons Soon though he gets entangled in a web of deceit full of unexpected twists and turns It has that Quentin Tarantino vibe that'll either please or turn off viewers Not a lot of emotional depth and the story is confusing at best But Kilmer carries this psychological drug drama giving enough to look at if not ponder too much

Decent Movie that is led by a solid performance by Val Kilmer. The story itself is a little convoluted, but still entertaining. It has a great supporting cast in Peter Sarsgaard and Vincent D'Onofrio. D'Onofrio is such a good actor and he shines in this one. He plays a crazy drug dealer with no nose.

Loved it, another great Val Kilmer movie

An okay film that takes too long to get going and then doesn't really go anywhere. Meticulous attention has been paid to style at the expense of substance.

There are movies, and there are films. This is a film, which kept my interest despite my habitual daydreaming during movies.

The salton sea is a strange film. Not that good to be considered a cult but not that bad to be completely obscure as the film is today. Val Kilmer plays a trumpeter/ drug mule in this atmospheric film which involves most of the tropes one associates with drug movies- bad cops, revenge, murder of family. It is well lit and the screenplay is pretty alright but the film doesn't turn into a Tarantinoesque material one can relish. Something tells me this would have been a better 온라인카지노추천 movie. Still, worth a watch, especially if you like Val Kilmer who is quite good here. (A Tarantino lite feature film).

Val Kilmer plays a trumpeter/ drug mule in this atmospheric film which involves most of the tropes one associates with drug movies- bad cops, revenge, murder of family. It is well lit and the screenplay is pretty alright but the film doesn't turn into a Tarantinoesque material one can relish. Something tells me this would have been a better 온라인카지노추천 movie. Still, worth a watch, especially if you like Val Kilmer who is quite good here.(Watch it for Kilmer).

The salton sea is a strange film. Not that good to be considered a cult but not that bad to be completely obscure as the film is today. Val Kilmer plays a trumpeter/ drug mule in this atmospheric film which involves most of the tropes one associates with drug movies- bad cops, revenge, murder of family. It is well lit and the screenplay is pretty alright but the film doesn't turn into a Tarantinoesque material one can relish. Something tells me this would have been a better 온라인카지노추천 movie. Still, worth a watch, especially if you like Val Kilmer who is quite good here.

Reasonable film but I think i've watched it twice but didn't remember any of it from the first time but that's probably down to my mental state more than the film

Danny Parker (Val Kilmer), is posing as a speed freak addicted to methamphetamine, who hangs out with his friend Jimmy the Finn (Peter Sarsgaard) and other lose people while indulging in drugs. He also moonlights as an informant for two corrupt cops, Gus Morgan (Doug Hutchison) and Al Garcetti (Anthony LaPaglia). He is trying to set up a large meth score with notorious drug dealer Pooh Bear (Vincent D'Onofrio), an eccentric psychopath who lost his nose to excessive snorting of "Gak" (meth), while also attempting to set up a sting operation for Morgan and Garcetti. When he returns home, Danny sheds his clothes and his personality, and basks in his past life as trumpet player Tom Van Allen. He reveals to an abused neighbor named Colette (Deborah Kara Unger) that he was once happily married, only to watch as his wife was gunned down by masked thieves during a stopover at the Salton Sea. Danny Parker/Tom Van Allen is the masked thieves on the trail, but he is playing a dangerous game with his alter egos... Film critic Roger Ebert liked the film and the characters but gave it a mixed review: The Salton Sea is all pieces and no coherent whole. Maybe life on meth is like that. The plot does finally explain itself, like a dislocated shoulder popping back into place, but then the plot is off the shelf; only the characters and details set the movie aside from its stablemates. I liked it because it was so endlessly, grotesquely, inventive: Watching it, I pictured Tarantino throwing a stick into a swamp, and the movie swimming out through the muck, retrieving it, and bringing it back with its tail wagging. The New York Times film critic Stephen Holden believed the film to be derivative, and wrote: The Salton Sea, directed by D. J. Caruso from a screenplay by Tony Gayton (who also wrote the recent Murder by Numbers), blatantly recycles moods and images from other recent films and compacts them into a formula of its own. From Heat it borrows a noirish twilighted despair; from Pulp Fiction, a fondness for grotesque caricature; from Requiem for a Dream, a contortedly druggy ambience; and from Fight Club a surrealist bravado and choked-back super-macho cool. All that borrowing lends The Salton Sea style to burn but little personality of its own. "The Salton Sea" is a neo-noir crime thriller that has this unique touch and vibe all over the production. As the late and great Roger Ebert wrote there´s something incoherent and unbalanced within the film as well, but there´s also something philosophically mesmerizing in the cinematography. Misery, drugs, love, death, revenge, redemption and truly odd characters takes you for a journey into the shady world of L.A. and its surroundings. The otherwise very bleak film has some quite weird funny scenes as well that really adds to the wholeness. Val Kilmer is in pretty good form as the low-key Danny Parker/Tom Van Allen, Peter Sarsgaard is great as Jimmy, but it´s Vincent D'Onofrio who is truly scary and convincing as the notorious insane drug dealer Pooh Bear. D'Onofrio goes full on in this role. "The Salton Sea" is for sure a very strong feature film debut for director D.J. Caruso.

The best Val Kilmer movie of all times, loved it!

Great movie! Val Kilmer is looking better than I've seen him, sometimes the plot seems a bit too good to be true, however is is a bit different from the usual drug dealing, tweakers, coke heads films. It's got a wee twist and even without that I would still recommend it, it's held together really well by Kilmer and to be honest, I couldn't see anyone else playing the lead! Enjoyed it immensely but I do like action packed, mystery dramas and this is just that!

75% Saw this on 29/6/16 How the fuck is this Tarantino-inspired? Whenever there's some style to story telling, critics compare itwith Tarantino as if he is the only one with a right to utilize style. This film works mostly due to the performances of Val Kilmer and Vincent D'Onfoio. Caruso has made a legitimate film afterall, but it is not as stylish as Taking Lives.

An intense film with great performances, it's a really underrated movie imo. Val Kilmer's performance as an husband who's wife been murdered by drugdealers who seeks revenge through speed junkies was really intense and breathtaking. Vincent D'Onofrio's crazy performance was really good as well. It has everything a great movie needs really, great acting, great writing, and great directing. Oh and yeah, the soundtrack is amazing! Saxophone ftw!