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200 Cigarettes (1999)

Rate: 3
Viewed: 3/21

200Cig
3/21: 200 Cigarettes is about chain-smoking losers conversing about nothing and walking around until something "cool" happens to them.

Given the strong ensemble of untalented thespians, it's a boring movie to sit through. Everybody pretends it's the early 80's when the look has been the late 90's the entire time. Trust me, anyone under 21 in 1999 will not know who Elvis Costello is.

The biggest letdown is, given everybody keeps talking about the New Year's Eve party they have to attend, I wasn't shown any of it but the aftermath. So...what's the point of them droning on and on about the main event?

There are no standouts. It's tiresome listening to Paul Rudd (who kept confusing me when I thought it was either Ben Affleck or his brother) and Courtney Love who's no great beauty. Dave Chappelle ruins every scene he appears in. What an annoying guy. Jay Mohr and Kate Hudson try to make something out of nothing and are therefore mostly okay. Everybody else is forgettable.

All in all, uninteresting conversations that are carried on by whiny characters in the absence of a plot isn't good enough of a reason to make 200 Cigarettes in the first place.