Every once in a while, I either forget to write a movie review or continue to put it off for whatever reason. By the time
I come back to the review process, months have passed and, more than likely, the film didn''t leave such a lasting impression on me to warrant the capability to go in depth on what I liked and didn''t like about the film. Such is the case with the star-studded Lonely Hearts , a serial killer movie that surprisingly didn''t get more of a marketing push.
Lonely Hearts stars John Travolta, James Gandolfini, Jared Leto, Salma Hayek, Scott Caan and Laura Dern, and is about a couple (played by Leto and Hayek) who travel around the countryside killing people for their money. Travolta and Gandolfini plays the cops who are hunting them down. Honestly, I don''t even remember how the movie ends (though I remember something about a girl''s head in a mailbox), but I do remember being relatively impressed by the gore and sadistic nature of the killing couple, especially Hayek. There''s one scene where Leto is having sex with a woman to seduce her into money, but Hayek, in a jealous rage, storms into the room and stabs her in the back of the head with an axe - while she''s still on top of Leto.
The two play well off one another, and I always appreciate Leto''s willingness to adjust his appearance to look as sleazy as possible. He''s a pretty good looking guy in real life, but in Lonely Hearts , with a scrawny frame and thinning hair, he really looks like a deadbeat. Neither will win any awards for the film, but they do a good job of portraying a couple that aren''t necessarily killing for the sake of killing, but don''t seem to really acknowledge that what they''re doing is immoral or bad.