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  • Must Go!

    Suicide is Not Painless

    Absolutely gut-wrenching and difficult from beginning to end, to long after you have watched this film! Very few films can worm themselves into a person?s psyche, but this one is more than capable: script, sound, music, photography, acting, theme, presentation all conspiring to tell a story that will resonate at the darker edges of our humanity. Nicolas Cage as Ben is a tour-de-force making Ray Milland (The Lost Weekend) look placid. Sera (Elisabeth Shue), a prostitute, complimented Cage as a heart-breaking character of despair and destruction. Both are bent on self-annihilation. Together they spell out a complex mixture of pain, fear, nihilistic and morbid thinking, failure, loss, and an absence of sanity. This story has more to do with relationships and love than with sex and more to do with holding on than with letting go, but such is buried deep within the chasm where death is no longer frightening and life is no longer worthwhile. You will be stunned.

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    Painful in a good way

    by redyeah

    There are many times in this movie where it is painful to watch Nicolas Cage go through his alcohol problem to the point the viewer simply feels abused. But that progression is what makes this a great character centered film. We see Elizabeth Shue try desperately to help Cage out of his deep need and what him to get help. Very emotional performances by both and well worth watching.

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    LEAVING LAS VEGAS

    Mike Figgis' LEAVING LAS VEGAS is at times excrutiating to watch and yet absolutely riveting from opening montage to poignant fade out. Nicholas Cage gives the performance of a lifetime here as the hopeless alchoholic determined to end his life and Elizabeth Shue follows him every step iof the way as the prostitute who quickly falls in love with him. On target, cinema verite-like examinatinon of destructive personalities and the desolate places one can end up in life. Startling acting from everyone involved but it really the two leads who domiate the movie and really draw you in, in spite of their ugly drawback and seamy situations. A marvelous movie!

Leaving Las Vegas Critic Reviews

Must Go! Avg. Critic Score out of 100 Metascore ® based on all critic ratings.

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Cage and Shue make these cliches into unforgettable people.

  • 100
    Variety |

    The film pulls no punches, takes no prisoners and flies in the face of...

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Dark and giddy at the same time, Leaving Las Vegas takes us into dreamy,...

  • 90
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    A uniquely hypnotic and haunting love story sparked by Nicolas Cage and...

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