Entropy (1999)

You won't be disappointed!

Awesome Movie

an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Is that really Bono? Heck, why not. He's everywhere, so he might as well be in this slow and uninspired b-movie. Not such a bad fit with his some of his other artistic accomplishments really. Working from his own experience as a former music video director, writer-director Phil Joanou simply can't decide whether this portrayal of his alter ego Jake Walsh is meant to be funny, grungy, romantic, deadpan, or all of the above. It wraps up on a romantic note, but with a different ending, it might as well be filed under "screwball" or even "pub-crawl". That's how random it is. The way the action freezes and Jake (Stephen Dorff) walks onto the stills to comment feels like a cool idea from a hundred years ago. The same goes for the split screen illustrating Jake's phone conferences with his producers, agents, lawyers and other freeloaders on the fringes of the period piece he is trying to make. "Entropy" is nowhere near as wild as the promotion suggests ("Booze, binges, broads"). Incoherently, some reviewers have compared it to Spike Jonze's masterpiece, "Being John Malkovich", which is about as far off the mark as it gets. If you want to see Stephen Dorff as a crazy director, I strongly recommend "Cecil B. Demented" instead. Oh, and just for the record: No way would a woman with eyebrows as bushy as Judith Godrèche's get work as a model in the real world.

It's refreshing to see a movie like this get made instead of some of the farces we seeing studio heads giving the green light to, today. Kudos to those who both greenlighted it and who made it.Entropy had it all for me because it was funny, tragic (funny tragic) and dramatic. I felt good throughout the movie and I actually don't know why I didn't know more about it or Phil Joanou. I blame this on the modern day movie machine not being able to properly promote movies that are both creative and eye catching. The scenes from New York's waterfront are in bold and contrasting colors, and it enlivened me further during a recent visit there. Joanou did the right thing film makers are supposed to do, he inspired us to see more into life and art and be entertained in the process. Such is the personal story that is being told in Entropy. After all, I don't think there is a single soul out there that hasn't felt some sort of incident or disaster in our romantic lives, and can't look back at it and laugh at in jest. We are not the most perfect of people, us humans, and all the better we can share the experience!I give Entropy an "8" just because it was so entertaining and visual, and while there will be many that will call this plainly over-rating, I don't care, I just really enjoyed the movie and could watch it again and again.

The director of U2's Rattle and Hum video, makes a great effort at a semi-autobiographical story. I'm not sure how much is from Phil Jouano's real life, but the impression is that Jake Walsh (dorff) is Juoanu. I liked this film so much, I added it to my personal collection, and watch it with friends often. Though it wasn't a big hit, it gets my vote as a short time in the life of a movie director in a rock and roll lifestyle spiraling down kind of thing. Good soundtrack too. But the talking cat is what made the movie for me. Any movie with a talking and smoking cat rules!!

If you're looking for a film that exists entirely in the reality of the daily world as most people know it, than perhaps you won't appreciate this film. But if you're looking for a film whose main character is as neurotic as you imagine yourself to be, and who follows those bad instincts you always wish you would, that this will be a fun movie for you. Stephen Dorff is wonderful in this movie, although at times he sounds like he's trying to be Christian Slater, there are certain echoes of Woody Allen in an "Annie Hall" kind of way. Phillip Joanou makes some very inventive decisions, often breaking reality, and allowing Dorff's character Jake, to tell the story solely from his own perspective. Is it the most original movie in the world? No, but it has U2, in fact Bono plays a prominent role at times, and it takes place in New York, LA, Las Vegas, and Paris, so you know it has to be hip.