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In Small Doses "You will feel like the world is a bubble of glass and you are rubbing up against it like a bad windshield wiper." This is the phrase stated before Stoltz's character of Zed is enticed into smoking hash. It also is a very apt way of relating the movie. I can't watch this film as often as I can watch RESERVOIR DOGS. I have to give myself a few years to forget about its flaws before I can subject myself to it again and appreciate what it has going for it. KILLING ZOE was actually spawned after director Avary was scouting locations for Tarantino to film the aforementioned movie. When he found an old bank in Los Angeles that wasn't quite good enough for DOGS, QT suggested that Avary might want to use it at another time. So even though the movie is placed in Paris, the whole thing was shot (aside from a couple of the driving scenes) in Los Angeles. It's much like DOGS in that there is a lot of blood and death, but it's different because the actors speak French. OK, there's more to it than that. The movie comes off pompous because of the accents, and if you've ever had a friend fake a French accent, that will wear on you quickly while watching the movie. The slow motion shots are also conflicting, where you could end up hating them, or (in my case) see them for the brilliant aside they are to being jacked up on drugs, where your whole world slows to a dull crawl and everything gets muted. Jean-Hugues Anglade is terrific as the barbaric Eric, killing everyone in his heroin induced haze. The fact that you hate him so much should show just how good his performance was. (Think Michael Madsen's turn in DOGS.) This is not the romance that the posters and trailers tried to purport it to be when the movie was first released. And yes, it is a knock-off of what Tarantino can do so much better, but it's still a solid and entertaining flick, especially if you've never seen it before. If you have, make sure you've forgotten it before you watch it again. You'll understand why. email this review to a friend
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