Clevercell Very disappointing...

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Tayyab Torres Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

NateWatchesCoolMovies Before Angelina Jolie blew up front and centre, she got her start in some wild and wacky b movies and genre stuff, the weirdest of which has to be Mojave Moon. It's one of those low rent flicks where not much of anything happens, the characters meander in and out of a non-story and almost everyone is completely nuts. 'B movie dramedy' I suppose would be the specific sub-genre. The 'story', as it were, follows drifter Al (Danny Aiello), who meets pretty young Ellie (Jolie) in a diner and hitches a ride out to the desert for seemingly no reason at all. As Ellie takes a shine to him, he begins to fall for her mother (Anne Archer). Only problem is, her mom has a boyfriend played by Michael Biehn who is quite possibly one of the weirdest characters I've ever seen in a film. Volatile, berserkly unstable and constantly in near hysteria mode, it's an odd performance that off-sets the quirky tone straight into the twilight zone. That seems to be the idea here though, the dreamy desert climate having a strange effect on these folks, causing all kinds of outrageous behaviour and scenarios. The town offers a rogue's gallery of characters including Michael Berryman, Alfred Molina, Jack Noseworthy, Peter Macnicol, John Getz, Michael Massee and others, all of whom don't really do much other than show up, act weird for a bit and then wander off again. I like this type of film though, purposeless other than to languish about with characters who don't want much, their arcs sputtering in a flatline of small town doldrums and behaviour that only makes sense to them. It's not for everyone, which is why no one really gives credit to this stuff, but it's enjoyable once in a while, when you're in as strange a mood as the residents of this one horse sideshow of a town.

jinnadaoc Im not really sure how this stuff gets written and made into movies. None of the situations are at all realistic (cars not starting and then starting without any explanation etc), none of the characters make any sense. None of the choices they make has any sense behind them (they seem to be governed by internal magic 8-balls), none of the consequences make any sense (characters getting locked in a shed that Hellen Keller and Stephen Hawking could escape from). At every turn there is a completely unrealistic coincidence of some sort (characters just randomly finding each other in LA, one of the largest cities in the world), that of course makes no sense.The acting is as horrible as the writing. Was Anne Archer trying to channel a stoned Marylyn Monroe? Jolie looked like she would rather be kissing freshly dug up corpses than interacting with anybody in the movie. BTW, she is not attractive at all...she looks like a stick figure somebody tried to inflate with a tire pump but only got to her lips and boobs (her boobs BTW are the only thing that makes this movie at all interesting, but just barely so), her ass looks like it hasn't graduated Jr High yet and her frame looks like it is carrying about 5 lbs of muscle.Horrible horrible movie.

bart-117 It would be easy to dismiss this as just another bad film. Actually, it is a bad film but it's redeemed by a couple of strong elements, most notably the appearance of Angelina Jolie and Danny Aiello. This is one of Jolie's earlier films, coming after Hackers but before her breakout performance in Gia, and you can really see her coming into her own as a star. A star is someone you can't take your eyes off of when they're on screen - Jolie is beautiful and sexy as hell but beyond that, even at this early stage, she's got a certain indescribable something that makes it hard to take your eyes off of her.Aiello, of course, is great at playing the kind of lovable schmuck he plays in this film. The loser with a heart of gold. In this film he's 50, just gone through a nasty divorce and trying to figure out life in LA. Unlike some of the other posts up here I could totally see him going out to the desert and getting mixed up with some of the crazy characters there. He's got an empty life and he's looking for something - anything - to give him a reason to keep going.Ann Archer has been better in other things, but she's rarely been made to look more beautiful than this.On top of all that, it's a great looking film that uses some really cool LA locations. Much of it was shot in Johnnies, a googie style diner on Wilshire Boulevard that Tarantino has used. Other locations include a cool 50's era motel (anyone know where this was?) and of course, the great California desert.So overall I wouldn't say this is a great film, but it's worth watching.

Carrie Newman What possessed talented actors/actresses to star in this terrible piece of junk. All actors are top notch. I bought it only for Angelina Jolie. After seeing it, I don't even want to loan it to the public library...I'd feel to guilty to subject someone to this. Even if you love Angelina Jolie as I do, this is NOT worth renting. Unless you like her so much you want every movie she made...she does look really cute in it.