Synopsis
A private detective is hired to find a missing stripper but the job turns complicated when everyone he questions ends up dead. From the mean streets of Los Angeles to the desolate desert of New Mexico, Cruz must contend with a brutal Russian Boxer, three brash LAPD detectives, an aged billionaire looking for the Big Bang, and the billionaire's stunningly gorgeous wife. The solution to the mystery will cost ten lives, net $30 million and just might explain - well - everything.
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Cast
- Antonio BanderasNed Cruz
- Thomas KretschmannFrizer
- Sienna GuilloryJulie Kestral / Lexie Persimmon
- William FichtnerPoley
- Delroy LindoSkeres
- Sam ElliottSimon Kestral
- Autumn ReeserFay Neman
- James Van Der BeekAdam Nova
- Jimmi SimpsonNiels Geck
- Bill DukeDrummer
Recommendations
- 75
Christian Science Monitor
Isn't overwhelmingly good, but it's just nutty enough to keep you watching. - 50
Variety
A borderline unintelligible, scattershot attempt at Lynchian neo-noir that takes intellectual and aesthetic risks it has no reasonable hope of pulling off. And yet train wreck that it may be, it's completely watchable, at times garishly eye-catching, and certainly the only film in theaters that features Snoop Dogg comparing himself to Alfred Hitchcock. - 40
Village Voice
Though the setup is pure Raymond Chandler (Farewell, My Lovely, specifically), the film's bleary, neon glamour and penchant for the bizarre suggests an attempted-and wayward-homage to David Lynch. - 40
Los Angeles Times
The movie never rises above a style-over-substance exercise. - 38
New York Post
For a noir, the film is way too talky and convoluted, yet for a physics lesson, it's trash. - 20
Time Out
Agent-turned-director Tony Krantz has a penchant for stylization that quickly slides into a velvet-painting cheesiness, which-along with the script's pseudoprofound Philosophy 101 maxims-renders the atmosphere less noirish than ridiculously cartoonish. - 10
The Hollywood Reporter
Without Antonio Banderas, The Big Bang would be a whimper of a movie, too awful to watch. - 0
Observer
With eyes closed and jaw firmly set, concentrating hard enough to break a blood vessel, I cannot think of a movie more incomprehensible, moronic, pointless or abominable than a load of trash called The Big Bang.
