Plot: What’s it about?
Go is about the day in the life of several individuals and told through the vantage point of four different people who cross each other paths in the movie. It starts out at a grocery store where Simon, Claire and Ronna work. (Desmond Askew, Katie Holmes and Sarah Polley) Simon is a Brit who deals drugs from the grocery store to customers, Claire and Ronna are friends who work at the grocery store together.
Simon and Ronna switch shifts so that Simon can go to Las Vegas with his friends and Ronna can work for the added money that she needs to pay rent. Ronna gets a request from two customers, Adam and Zack, (Scott Wolf and Jay Mohr) for some drugs. She feels that she can fulfill their needs and get some extra money so she gets their phone number. Ronna takes the matter into her own hands since Simon is in Vegas. Ronna goes directly to the drug dealer for what she needs. She cheats the drug dealer out of some money and now the drug dealer is after her and traces her down to a warehouse party.
The second point of view is from Simon. He goes to Vegas with some friends, Marcus ,Tiny and Mannie. Taye Diggs, Breckin Meyer and Nathan Bexton) The guys go out to gamble, but Tiny and Mannie are too sick from the shrimp that they ate so Simon and Marcus go out without them. They head to a strip club after gambling and a mishap where they run into some trouble when Simon touches one of the strippers. They get chased by the bouncer and the owner, the bouncer’s father, around Las Vegas for a while.
The third point of view is from Adam and Zack the two who purchase the drugs from Ronna. They are two soap opera actors who are gay and in love with each other and they find out that they both have been cheating on each other with the same guy. They go looking for him and they end up at the warehouse party with the others, coincidentally. These two are quite funny and a bit paranoid at times.
The final point of view is from Claire. She ends up losing her friends at the party and walks to some restaurant where her and friends meet when they get lost. Claire runs into the drug dealer who she was forced to wait with as collateral while Ronna was dealing the drugs she purchased. They end up back at his place for the ending that ties it all together.
This is a good movie and a different movie on how four different characters are the center of the movie as it jumps back and forth through the same time period. It may sound confusing in this review, but the movie is not at all. Just hard to explain it all. I recommend this one.
Video: How does it look?
This has both the 2.35:1 16:9 enhanced version and the full frame version on the same side of the dual layered disc. With all the extras added to the disc the picture lacks the quality it should. It is not a bad transfer just not a pristine one. I noticed some grain in the picture in two of the darker scenes, but it is not that bad and shouldn’t deter you from the pleasure of the movie. It didn’t for me.
Audio: How does it sound?
This was a very good soundtrack and in the club scenes the subwoofer kicked in with some reference style bass. The surrounds were used now and then with the gun shots and the car chases. A very well mixed soundtrack and it fit the movie very well.
Supplements: What are the extras?
This is a Special Edition of the movie GO from the folks at Columbia Tri Star so you get plenty of extras. You get a making of featurette, audio commentary with the director and editor. There 14 deleted scenes that are cool to watch and you learn as to why they were cut from the movie. This disc also has three music videos from the bands No Doubt, LEN and Philip Steir featuring Steppenwolf. The videos are in 2.0 surround sound and are pretty good. Finally the disc has a theatrical trailer and some talent files on some of the actors and the director.
