Mojave Moon (1996)

Wonderfully offbeat film!

Absolutely the worst movie.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Its full of clichés and full of parody but the plot is not predictable... which makes this a passable, meandering, not-quite-sure-what-next film. There's some amusement here, but not enough.The two turn-offs: 1. Jolie and her allure are a big part of the movie... but she is mismatched with Aiello. A much older guy or gal is fine, so long as they still match in attractiveness. Aiello isn't handsome enough for there to be any plausibility with Jolie. The promiscuous kissing, particularly between those two, gets a yuk from me.2. The shootout scene where nobody can hit anybody and the garage guy doesn't have to take cover... is too extreme a parody in the context of the film. Taken to that extent of silliness in a movie like "Airplane", it might work. In this one it just knocked me out of the film... with mutterings or ridiculous... destroyed any suspension of disbelief... and had me deciding whether to find another DVD. I did persist - and had just about forgotten it by the end - but without that scene, the movie might climb a whole star.

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.

"Mojave Moon" is a film fueled on the magic of a full moonlit night. It has a distinct, memorable and charming presence. I love this very feel of the film, but unfortunately it wares off as the movie tries to reinvent itself at the end. It shifts into a different mood, from a sweet romance into a wacky, cartoonish comedy. Danny Aiello is a genuine actor, and his best work is in his little indie films like this. He plays a used carsalesman named Al, who is lost in a routine life. One day a beautiful free spirit (Angelina Jolie) serves as an outlet as he follows her into the Mojave Desert for a mysterious adventure. The premise is almost identical to "Box of Moon Light", a far better film. Both films are about a person serving as a way out of the deadly foe of time. If only "Mojave Moon" centered itself more on the wonderful magic of the journey and the life-changing outcomes like "BOM", instead of becoming untrue to itself. (Ironically both main characters are named Al).

The movie is strange but you come to like it. It has a Lynch atmosphere and it alternates between comedy and thriller (reminded me of Wild At Heart sometimes). This is the first film Angelina Jolie film I've seen. She's gorgeous! If I were Aiello I would definitely fall for her. Michael Biehn is extremely cool!