Synopsis
The stories of a missing wife, a couple of meth heads and an Elvis impersonator are connected by the items found in a small town's pawn shop.
Votre Filmothèque
Cast
- Paul WalkerRaw Dog
- Elijah WoodJohnny Shaw
- Norman ReedusStanley
- Brendan FraserRicky
- Vincent D'OnofrioAlton
- Pell JamesCyndi
- Thomas JaneThe Man
- Lukas HaasVernon
- Chi McBrideJohnson
- Kevin RankinRandy
Recommandations
- 63
Slant Magazine
Wayne Kramer thankfully refuses to cloak his excessiveness in hedge-betting self-consciousness and the result is a gratifyingly disreputable B-movie blow out. - 40
Los Angeles Times
Kramer, 10 years removed from his lone critical success, "The Cooler," and writer Adam Minarovich aren't exactly aping Tarantino, if only because they don't have the talent or inclination to aim that high. - 38
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
It’s coherent enough, but entirely too long and unpleasant when it could have been one brutishly edgy hoot after another. - 30
Village Voice
Director Wayne Kramer (Running Scared, Crossing Over) makes plain his cartoon-comedy intentions early and often via comic-book-panel-style title cards. The presiding atmosphere of over-the-top zaniness, however, is of a broad, banal sort involving little people, rampant nudity, and quasi-religious nonsense. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
Despite its noteworthy cast who presumably had some time to fill between better gigs, this is the sort of instantly disposable B-movie effort that Quentin Tarantino would have chucked in the wastebasket after a first draft. - 30
The New York Times
"Hee Haw” meets “Pulp Fiction” at the meth lab: That describes the style of Pawn Shop Chronicles, a hillbilly grindhouse yawp of a movie that belches in your face and leaves a sour stink. - 25
RogerEbert.com
The problem with Pawn Shop Chronicles is not the fact that it is a clone of "Pulp Fiction." The problem is that it is a lousy clone. - 20
Time Out
Only one gag (involving a town’s rival barbers) sticks; the rest is just whistlin’ Dixie.
