I am a Rachael Leigh Cook fan, but man does this film blow! A marginally sympathetic out-of-work actor played by a miscast Jon Favreau hires himself out to deliver a mysterious suitcase to someone in Baker, California. Of course, nothing goes as planned, and before long Favreau runs into a parade of eccentric characters who seem to have stepped out of every bad American indie film from the past ten years. Cook looks fetching, but has little to do other than to get tied up and berated by her jealous boyfriend (Adam Beach in a thankless and nonsensical role). There's a lot of strange goings-on, but since we couldn't care less about any of these inane people, the confused and derivative plot (see REPO MAN and U-TURN) leads us to nowhere but a big fat empty (theater, hopefully).
Review of The Big Empty
