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Kevin Smith's Best Film
by Yahoo! Movies User (movies profile)
Jun 28, 2005
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3 people found this review helpful
This is without a shadow of a doubt Kevin Smith's best movie of all time. It is also his very first film. This is just such an excellent movie. The dialogue is incredibly crisp, the directing is creative, the acting is great, the movie is a definite masterpiece. For an unspeakably low budget, Smith really made this film into something so memorable and undeniably brilliant! It's flawed at parts, and it gets it a little bit slow towards the middle, but a very hilarious, disturbing, and overall shocking scene towards the end pretty much makes up for it. The film reminds me a lot of 'Tarantino' movies it moves along mostly on dialogue instead of pyschical actions or special effects. The story takes place during the time period of one full day of the life of a man, Dante (Brian O'Halloran) who works at a convenience store, who is forced to come to work on his day off. During the period of one day, the most interesting, funniest, disturbing and strangest people walk through the doors of the conveince store. Dante works there with the odd, semi-sleazy, and hysterical Video Store employee Randall (John Anderson - who was nominated for an Idependent Spirit Award for his truly amazing performance). Randall also works next door to Dante in the second-rate video store. Other important characters are Dante's girlfriend Veronica (Marilyn Ghihliotti) and Dante's ex-girlfriend (Lisa Spoonhauer), who Dante finds out is suddenly getting married to an Asian design major. Also, this is the first film to to introduce the unbeatable duo of Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Kevin Smith - who is also the the director/writer of the movie). If you see this and like it, also rent Kevin Smith's other films Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Dogma. Clerks. is a movie I'd only recommend for anyone looking for a great sick & twisted comedy that doesn't play by the rules. |
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