This was a bland, passionless, simple movie with simple people, a simple script and a simple ending. Even the title was simple: "Guncrazy." That's a title you come up with when you're fresh out of ideas because there was no more gun usage or gun violence in this movie than any other violent movie. In fact, by some standards, this would've been considered mild.
The way it started, with Anita (Drew Barrymore) easily and matter-of-factly having sex with the group of boys, I thought the movie was strange. Then, as I saw more of Anita's life and behavior, it seemed that the initial behavior fit. She's damaged, if not dumb, to the point where she believes sex is just something you give to guys who ask if you want them to like you or leave you alone. With that as a basis it looked like the movie could go somewhere.
It further trended in the right direction when she hooked up with the ex-con, Howard Hickock (Jame LeGros). He was the only decent man she'd come across and they hit it off immediately. Now, of course it's hard to know what their relationship truly was being that Anita was so emotionally immature.
Everything began going downhill once Anita's old tormentors came back into the picture. As the two newlyweds were disposing of a body, they were approached by Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, two stupid high school boys who had badgered Anita into sex. Even though she was now with her new man they had no reservations about harassing her.
Howard, doing what almost any self-respecting husband would do, pulled a gun on them and told them to back off. Anita, not recognizing a simple threat when she sees one, jumped at Howard, bumping his arm thereby causing him to pull the trigger and killing one of the boys. Well, of course he has to kill the other boy.
The movie continued to devolve from there, finally ending in some asinine quasi-romantic shootout in which cops don't wear bulletproof vests when laying siege to a known killer. Howard was inevitably killed as a chivalrous act of martyrdom that was so empty and hollow--while Anita lived and was gently escorted out of their hole-up spot by Howard's parole officer, perennial bad guy, Michael Ironside.
The way it started, with Anita (Drew Barrymore) easily and matter-of-factly having sex with the group of boys, I thought the movie was strange. Then, as I saw more of Anita's life and behavior, it seemed that the initial behavior fit. She's damaged, if not dumb, to the point where she believes sex is just something you give to guys who ask if you want them to like you or leave you alone. With that as a basis it looked like the movie could go somewhere.
It further trended in the right direction when she hooked up with the ex-con, Howard Hickock (Jame LeGros). He was the only decent man she'd come across and they hit it off immediately. Now, of course it's hard to know what their relationship truly was being that Anita was so emotionally immature.
Everything began going downhill once Anita's old tormentors came back into the picture. As the two newlyweds were disposing of a body, they were approached by Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, two stupid high school boys who had badgered Anita into sex. Even though she was now with her new man they had no reservations about harassing her.
Howard, doing what almost any self-respecting husband would do, pulled a gun on them and told them to back off. Anita, not recognizing a simple threat when she sees one, jumped at Howard, bumping his arm thereby causing him to pull the trigger and killing one of the boys. Well, of course he has to kill the other boy.
The movie continued to devolve from there, finally ending in some asinine quasi-romantic shootout in which cops don't wear bulletproof vests when laying siege to a known killer. Howard was inevitably killed as a chivalrous act of martyrdom that was so empty and hollow--while Anita lived and was gently escorted out of their hole-up spot by Howard's parole officer, perennial bad guy, Michael Ironside.