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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Absolutely Fantastic

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Actually, the movie itself wouldn't have gotten such a high score from me, but it introduced me to pretty Jennifer Connelly back in the day. Tonight, years and years later, decades actually, the movie in my DVD player is CAREER OPPORTUNITIES, and I fondly remember this other 'old' (hey, it's cruising on to almost 27 years ago) movie. Noticed here the well-remembered quote about TV "and not much else but your own devices" in a small town. Fond, fond memories. Yeah, I've got this one in my collection, it was among my early purchases on DVD during the RavenGlamDVDCollector starting years. Currently posting quotes for CAREER OPPORTUNITIES, in-between remembering lines from THE HOT SPOT. After Don Johnson got that kiss from an uncertain Jennifer, the line was something like "That was about as much fun as kissing a fallen down drunk" but right now I can't vouch for the exact words to post the quote.Jennifer, with her long, long hair (I'm a sucker for that) and her cute flower-decorated open-toed summer sandals (sucker for that too!) + all that tension created by Virginia Madsen + ol' Don Johnson was quite great = well, don't expect anything but a corny partly crappy (kidding) thriller, but it had moments, good ones, and I would never forget charming good girl Jennifer Connelly in this one.

Reading how the original cast was not available makes me wonder how they could have done better?Don Johnson is so slimy, good looking, cool and dangerous that he makes Robert Mitchum look ho hum in his film noir ventures. Jennifer Connely is about as fresh faced and incredibly beautiful as a 19 year old could be anywhere. Her nude scene on the beach is probably worth the price of this DVD. This was in her "busty" days. Virginia Madsen is incredibly, boldly sexy as the kind of girl your mother told you to avoid. But you can't. The film revolves around this trio as Johnson drifts into town, gets a used car job, gets seduced by the trashy wife of the older owner, starts an affair with Jennifer Connelley, robs a bank, kills a blackmailer, and ends up pondering it all. I won't go into specifics. But the story is pure classic film noir directed by Dennis Hopper. So just enough strange blended with fantastic over the top performances by Barry Corbin and others in the cast. Johnson's best movie performance. Madden's almost best (see LONG GONE where she plays Dixie Lee Box). Great character actors and a great film to watch. Wasn't successful at box office but should have been. Hard people, hard reality, hard knocks. I gave it 10 stars because it was that interesting. If you love Noir, here's a color Noir that will absolutely not disappoint. Watch it in HD.

This is film noir and works from a great primary text, in fact it's Postman Rings Twice; man has washed up in a smalltown limbo somewhere in Texas, goes to work for a blonde bombshell's husband who has a heart condition. It's viscous in mood, scorching heat as you wait with nothing to do in the empty car dealership. It has a lot of latenight snooping around as passion drowns the night and makes the air sticky.But it also has what I can always count on noir to provide and really sets the genre apart from ordinary crime; realizations about the mechanisms that create a life of suffering, how they begin in the mind and take mirrored form outside in narratives that trap us in chimeras.A man succumbing to desire - rendered here as a fire that goes off in town and he goes to see - and how that sets in motion a karmic chain of events woven from that desire. It begins with merely being curious to see, ends with inability to escape a narrative. None of that would have come to pass of course if he hadn't allowed himself to be pulled by desire, thinking that fates are blind and he could go unseen inside the bank.In other hands that might have been expert notation squandered in a histrionic telling, think Romeo is Bleeding. A lot of modern noir is like this, selfaware cartoons. It works so well here and to my mind it may have something to do with having Hopper at the helm, someone who has made his rounds of reckless life on the edge. Judging from the film, he brings an affinity for all this as life that entwines around you, sticky clothes on a hot night.My favorite part is the premonition of possible lives ahead of him anchored in the two women.The sultry femme, with the viscously furnished house of meaningless passion, the latenight encounter in the wilds. And as contrast the sweet co-worker who stands as promise for quiet love, swimming with her in the secluded pond, walking her back home in the early morning.Hopper weaves here again the notion of a wrong perception as the early stage of suffering; a seeing that pried into her one day at the pond, snapped images of her that a redneck lecher is using to keep her trapped in a (false) narrative. His house as another space of meaningless desire that feeds off appearances, with photos of women strewn about but the place is a junk heap, the place of someone who's let himself go.Noir Meter: 4/4 | Neo-noir or post noir? Neo

When the drifter Harry Madox (Don Johnson) reaches a small town in Texas, he gets a job as used car salesman with the dealer George Harshaw (Jerry Hardin) and settles down in a hotel room. During a fire, Harry observes that the local bank is left empty and open without any security. Sooner he plots a scheme to rob the bank, provoking a fire in his room to distract the employees. When Harry meets George's wife Dolly Harshaw (Virginia Madsen), the easy woman teases him and they have sex. Harry becomes the prime suspect of the bank heist and is arrested, but Dolly provided the necessary alibi to release him and blackmails him to have a love affair with her. However, Harry falls in love for Gloria Harper (Jennifer Connelly), who works as accountant in the dealership. He discovers that Gloria is blackmailed by the despicable Frank Sutton (William Sadler) and he decides to press Sutton. But in the end, Dolly gets what she wants. "Hot Spot" is an unknown gem and one of the most amoral stories of the cinema history. With the exception of the sweet Gloria Harper and the cuckold George Harshow, the other three lead characters have no moral or ethical codes and Virginia Madsen performs one of the most despicable and Machiavellian femme fatale of the cinema. This masterpiece of Dennis Hopper is certainly the best work of Don Johnson and the soundtrack is stunning and among my favorites. I have just watched "Hot Spot" maybe for the sixth or seventh time and this film-noir has not aged. My vote is nine.Title (Brazil): "Hot Spot – Um Local Muito Quente" ("Hot Spot – A Very Hot Spot")Note: On 29 October 2011, I saw this film again.