Based on a novel by Elmore Leonard ,"Get Shorty "provides John Travolta with another brilliant part after the success of "Pulp Fiction" the previous year.As Chili Palmer,Travolta is a charming,energetic and cool hood wisecracking his way through the jungle of Hollywood-deal-making. It's quite a biting satire of mobster movies and Hollywood in general. Travolta is surrounded by a terrific cast which all our tops,especially I enjoyed Dennis Farina's hilarious part.James Gandolfini is fine as the gentle bodyguard,once stunt-man, years before he gained fame as Tony Soprano.There have been other movies made of Elmore Leonard's hardboiled novels,Jackie Brown (1997),Out of Sight (1998),and this is just as good a movie as the other. I had a great time.
Review of Get Shorty
