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Voodoo Dawn

2000, Movie, R, 93 mins

Voodoo Dawn: Review

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The directorial debut of acclaimed cinematographer Andrzej Sekula, this gloomy crime thriller deals with the bastardization of white magic. Unfortunately, he seems to have been convinced that shooting everything at a snail's pace would impart deeper meaning to the material. It doesn't. Furious with Officer Merchant (Sam Ageloff) for shooting his brother, maniacal convict Frank (Michael Madsen) bides his time in jail. Luckily, his new cellmate is a practitioner of magic secrets stolen from bayou priestess Queenie (Pat Perkins). After instructing Frank, however, this mournful convict hangs himself. Frank mesmerizes the parole board into setting him free and starts operating illegal enterprises from his exotic bar. He uses his powers to bump off Officer Merchant and his wife in an accident, and curses their son A.J. (Balthazar Getty), who kills his brother Nick in a vehicular homicide. But when Frank forces the impoverished Luc (James Russo) to pay a debt, Luc asks Queenie to put a hex on the payment. Frank meanwhile forces Luc's sister, Jezabelle (Rosanna Arquette), to help him in his continuing harassment of the Merchant family. Claiming to have taken a lease on the Merchants' home, Jezabelle moves in and starts vamping recently paroled A.J. and his surviving brother, Scott (Phillip Glasser). Jezabelle doublecrosses Frank by convincing A.J. to violate his parole by traveling out of state to retrieve loot Queenie cursed with her gris-gris. These machinations culminate in a battle for the dough that pits Jezabelle and A.J. against Frank's thugs. Although Frank's men kill Luc and Jezabelle's stepfather , Jezabelle and A.J. flee the carnage. Before you can say, "How's bayou?", Queenie gets into the act. This interminable thriller's efforts to construct a neo-biblical joust between good and evil fail dismally. leave a comment --Robert Pardi
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