This is a truly loathsome work of self-pity and self-aggrandizement, whose charms include smug, playful racism, and casually brutal misogyny.

The film is barely competent in terms of basic cinematic technique, completely incompetent in terms of storytelling, and fatuous and offensive in its supposed “themes”.

Dennis Hopper’s career was effectively ended for over a decade by the disaster that was this film, and that is hardly sufficient punishment. In short, one of the worst and most offensive films I have ever seen.

Spit.