Pretty boy Billy (Jude Law) is an amoral rebel without a cause. His anarchic response to a bleak London existence is to steal cars and drive them through shop windows: "crash and carry," as one fellow "shopper" terms it. But he and his tough, video-game obsessed gal-pal Jo (Sadie Frost) are no Bonnie and Clyde. Their shopping trips are merely a pretext for the adrenaline rush of destruction and the thrill of playing high-speed tag with the cops, a game that starts to wear thin on Jo. "Why don't you grow up, eh?" she finally asks. "And do what?" he helplessly replies.
The feature debut of Brit stylist Paul Anderson (Event Horizon) is a sleek film of misty alleys, blue-lit underground garages, and slick city streets. It's a dystopian London of the near future through the lens of Blade Runner driven almost single-handedly by Law's reckless charm and wild energy. It's hard to tell if the film is about the nihilism of sensation-hunting lost youth or simply a sensational melodrama of aimless rebellion, but there's nonetheless something irresponsibly appealing in Billy's anti-establishment rampage. --Sean Axmaker
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Writer/Director Paul Anderson ('Mortal Kombat') has created this story of a barren and anonymous city where the sport of choice is "shopping"- a game in which stolen cars are driven through store windows where the participants loot as much as possible before the police arrive. For Tommy, it's a business, but for Billy & Jo, it's a labor of love. As the competition between Tommy & Billy grows more fierce, the stakes become higher and the "shopping" trips increasingly risky.
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In the barren streets of an urban wasteland, the sport of choice is "shopping" - driving stolen cars through department store windows, then looting the store before the police arrive. For some like Tommy, it's a lucrative business, but for Billy & Jo, it's a labor of love. As Billy's rivalry with Tommy grows, his "Shopping" trips grow more and more ambitious. Can he survive his own addiction to adrenaline?
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