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Starring Sarah Polley, Katie Holmes, Scott Wolf, Jay Mohr, Desmond Askew, Taye Diggs, Timothy
Olyphant, Brecken Meyer, Jane Krackowski, William Fichtner, J. E. Freeman.
Directed by Doug Liman.
It's Christmas Eve. Ronna (Polley) is a cashier completely bored with her job, sick of listening to customers at the grocery store where she works. She's putting in tons of hours trying to make extra money, because she's about to be evicted and she needs the rent. Fellow worker and part-time drug dealer Simon (Askew) offers her half the cash she needs if she'd pick up his shift, and she agrees. A couple of good looking men on the town Adam and Zack (Wolf and Mohr) arrive looking for Simon, trolling for some drug enhancement for a rave happening at a nearby warehouse. With Simon out of town, Ronna faces a dilemma - make a one-time quick sale that will get her out of her rent troubles, or face eviction. Guess which choice she makes. She takes along her best friend Claire (Holmes) and leaves her as collateral at Simon's drug source Todd (Olyphant). When Ronna arrives at Adam and Zack's place, she smells a trap, and smells correctly. She flushes the drugs down the toilet and get's out, but now she's out the money and the drugs. And things go down hill from there. Meanwhile Simon and his friends go to Las Vegas for some gambling and women, but things don't go well for them either. He and buddy Marcus (Diggs) take in some exotic dancing, but Simon's frisky hands leads them to get out of their with a couple of Vegas hoods after them. Adam and Zack, not exactly who they seem, spend the rest of the evening in a creepy encounter with Burke (Fichtner) and Irene (Krackowski) having Christmas (Eve) dinner and fielding an offer they didn't expect. But the night is not yet over. Limon, who directed the overrated Swingers, has created an entertaining three part story depicting underground life in L.A. Each story is intertwined with the others in very nifty ways. Compared by some to Pulp Fiction for its structure, Go is far less showier and stylish, and far more relaxed and normal. The dialogue is not Pulp Fiction's stylish chatter about nothing, but is wittier and often very funny. The action zips along in a very entertaining way, and the three intertwining episodes mesh together well. Other than Claire's unlikely play on Todd who she's supposedly scared of, the events are plausible and don't feel contrived. The main story involves Ronna, and Polley again shows considerable ability to capture characters from different worlds. She is excellent as the world weary, bored Gen-Xer, conveying the attitude that her one-time drug dealing and her ripping off some ravers is justified because, well, she needs the cash, and her crappy job just isn't paying enough to finance all that she wants. Holmes is quite good as the somewhat straight-laced friend, trying to protect Ronna from herself, without much success. And, now that you mention it, she's not hard to look at either. Diggs is a pleasure to watch as the smart, stylish buddy who knows he shouldn't hand out with a loose cannon like Simon, but tries to keep him out of trouble anyway. Fichtner is a lot of fun playing the slightly crazy undercover cop. The rest of the cast is good from top to bottom. If your looking for an interesting and offbeat look at young people in not so glamourous L. A., Go is well worth going to.  
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