It's got a terrific young cast (hello, Taye Diggs, where have you been all my life?), a pulsing soundtrack, and a jittery excitement that runs through the three intertwined, overlapping tales. Surprisingly, it takes a little while to get going, but once it does, it never pauses for breath again. It's been compared a lot to Pulp Fiction, and it's got the same non-linear structure, the same sharp black humor, the same sudden and shocking turns into tragedy. There are even specific scenes that echo Pulp's -- in a coffee shop, in a drug dealer's apartment (and given director Doug Liman's homage to Martin Scorsese in Swingers, I'm assuming the similarity is meant to be noticed). But it doesn't feel derivative -- more like a playful riff. (And for those of you who were turned off by Pulp Fiction, rest assured, Go isn't anywhere near as sick or violent.) And it's got more laugh-out-loud humor -- an Ecstasy-fueled hallucination in a supermarket brought tears to my eyes (and not just because it's set to the "Macarena").
So what's my recommendation? "GO!"
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