Konterr Brilliant and touching

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Tuck_Frump The only reason I checked out this movie is because in the credits it states that China Kantner is in this movie. She might have been, but I didn't see her. I loved her in a movie called "The Stoned Age" (1994), so I wanted to see her again. She might have had a very very small role, but it wasn't worth my time watching this movie for a blink. I have never been a Reese Witherspoon fan, but I love Renee Zellweger and I rented "Dazed and Confused" (1993) just to see her, but just like this movie, I was disappointed to find out that she is only in it for a moment. I don't think they should list actors in the credits unless they have prominent roles, and if they do, then maybe the word "bit part" should be next to their names.

ptb-8 Yet Another Wasted Night watching some indulgent auteur's desperate attempt at creating a cult film. Jefrey Levy is one director to avoid. SFW is ineptly directed without any sense of camera position and far too much self consciousness. Promising lead actor Stephen Dorff should have changed his agent...in 1994 and I am writing this in 2005. Where has he gone? where is his career? His hilarious comment that he turned down the Jack Dawson role in TITANIC because he did not want to be remembered as 'the guy in the boat picture" is so Derek Zoolander in it's stupidity and lack of awareness one can only come to the sad realisation that maybe SFW is the peak of his career. Yecch. SFW is so apt a title in what is apparently supposed to be a merciless skewering of the media - all presented badly and clumsily by a hack TV director. Any film maker who actually wants Jake Busey in his film really does not have a clue as to what he is doing. Reese Witherspoon is completely wasted and the obviousness of Levy's cult wannabe heavy handedness is evident throughout. SFW is basically a terrible film. If John Waters had made it - and he would have made a better job of it, and without the ridiculous incessant swearing it would have been successful because Waters understands irony. Annoyingly he did make a film with Dorff: CECIL B DEMENTED in 1999 which was great until the last reel when it all fell over. He should have made SFW instead, As for Stephen Dorff's career, well I guess he can re emerge, Rocky-like and make a film called THE POWER OF TWO a sequel to the only intelligent film he has yet made. Otherwise like the career of both Dorf and Levy, SFW indeed.

HCG714 S.F.W. the concept was interesting the plot once watched was lame and boring a true waste of a casts time and a industry's money.Once you see it you will soon forget it!!Stephen Dorff & Reese Witherspoon just waste there time & talents in a really wasted script. With a better more talented screenwriter and a more talent director the movie could have been so much more mabey even some underground cult film. But what happens to a story about 5 people that are being held hostage in a convenience store for 36 days, & one of them demands from the hostage takers that all TV-stations should broadcast the entire situation live, turns into a boring little movie with nothing more than a loud soundtrack and really bad over the top acting in a really bad made for Tv movie of the week for the big screen.Whats funny is that Reese Witherspoon is billed as a main character, she is on the cover of the DVD box but she is hardly in the movie, and when she is on screen she shows what talent she does have, but how much of it is wasted. Stephen Dorff is a great actor, another of the under-rated talents in Hollywood today who seems to find really bad scripts that just really under-rate his talent and "S.F.W." is just another film that is a big mistake on his acting resume.Rounding out the rest of cast that sseem to waste there talents is both Jake Busey and the very laughable not so talented Natasha Gregson Wagner.One film I'm adding to my "Worst Films of 1994" list!!!See it once, if you don't fall asleep, and once the credits roll you will soon forget it.

bob the moo 5 people are taken hostage in a convenience store for 36 days until a fight allows them to escape. During these 36 days the terrorists' only demand is that their video feed from inside the store is broadcast live on the networks. Spab and Wendy emerge as the only survivors to find themselves heroes of the media generation.Don't let the plot summary fool you into thinking this is some type of thriller with a media slant. The hostage thing is over in the first 3 minutes and any flashbacks are dull and meaningless (except one powerful one). Instead we have a mixed up satire on media and the fade of fame. The plot never makes sense and really loses the point after only a few minutes. The fact that the whole hostage thing is never explained and barely touched on just shows it is nothing but a poor plot device to get to where the makers wanted to be to make their point.It manages to come across as just an angry youth movie – with it's anger not directed anywhere in particular. This causes it to be very loud and with far too much swearing, causing you to start to switch off. The only point that the film manages to make clearly is that no matter who is the 15 minute celeb or news story that night, TV is all the same. Wow! What cutting edge comment!Dorff is OK but just plain annoying in his videos (that apparently the world love). Witherspoon is vapid, Busey is just loud and annoying and Adams is totally misused. The cast put more effort into saying the F word than anything else. It is very off putting because it is unnecessary – I guess they thought the `kids' would dig it.Overall this is just like the media that it tries to criticise. It is loud, meaningless, lacking substance and totally forgettable – physician heal thyself............