It`s Christmas in LA and Ronna, Sarah Polley, agrees to fill in for Simon, Desmond Askew, her supermarket co-worker so he can take a trip to Las Vegas. Adam and Zac, Scott Wolf and Jay Mohr, a couple of actors looking to score drugs from Simon turn up and Ronna decides on the risky business of supplying them - but first she has to buy from Simon`s dealer, Todd, Timothy Olyphant - and that`s just the start of a series of betrayals and tense situations in a story which keeps abruptly rushing back to the beginning to follow other characters - Simon`s adventures in Vegas, Adam and Zac`s involvement with a very strange cop, William Fichtner. During some crowded hours, the action never lets up.
Doug Lamina`s first feature was the very engaging Swingers, and Go is even better. The director photographed the film himself in the scope ratio, and it looks just great as these hedonistic young people careen from one nail-biting encounter to another and the most unexpected paths keep crossing. You can see the influence of Pulp Fiction in the structure, but Liman`s film, though very calculated, has a freshness all its own and the performances are terrific. Taking in the rave scene frequented by bored 20-somethings and backed by a pounding techno soundtrack, the aptly-titled Go is fun from start to finish.
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