Overview: A WEEKEND WASTED IS NEVER A WASTED WEEKEND. In the wake of Pulp Fiction, Hollywood was quick to embrace a wave of smart, hyperkinetic crime comedies - and few captured the energy of the era better than Swingers director Doug Liman’s Go.

Written by future Big Fish screenwriter John August, this frenetic cult favorite channels late-’90s youth culture into a wild, interconnected ride of drugs, raves and disastrous decisions over one chaotic Christmas weekend. Desperate for rent money, supermarket clerk Ronna (Sarah Polley, Dawn of the Dead) agrees to broker a drug deal that quickly spirals out of control.

Elsewhere, two soap opera actors (Jay Mohr and Scott Wolf) become entangled with an unnervingly friendly narcotics detective (William Fichtner), while a Vegas road trip involving Ronna’s coworker Simon (Desmond Askew) erupts into sex, violence and utter mayhem. As the stories collide, every bad choice pushes the night closer to catastrophe.

Stylish, hilarious and relentlessly energetic, Go launched the careers of a plethora of stars, including Timothy Olyphant and Katie Holmes, while cementing Liman as one of the defining cinematic voices of the era - a razor-sharp cult classic and an alternative Christmas movie like no other.

4K Blu-ray Verdict: Films this clever are few and far between. Most scriptwriters find it hard enough to come up with one intelligent storyline to keep the audience entertained but Go manages to intertwine multiple stories running parallel. In true, unashamed Pulp Fiction style these cross over at several points, with the main characters bumping into one another (at times in a literal sense).

All of these stories, set in the festive season, seem to revolve around a drug-deal-gone-wrong, and the action flits backwards and forwards to those involved in each story. If this sounds like incoherent babble, watch the film, it makes more sense than I do.

In a possible masterstroke, the cast is made up mostly of comparative-unknowns (even boasting an old cast member of English school drama Grange Hill). This immediately dispels any delusions of Hollywood grandeur and clichés – this stuff is fresh. A superb young cast shows the characters making molehills into mountains, and mountains into … bigger mountains. At no point do these actors slip into the laziness we see so often in teenage films and TV programs and we feel empathy for all of the main characters at one point or another.

From a fantastic soundtrack to astounding camerawork, distinctly above average originality to one of the wittiest scripts of any recent film, Go is always throwing something unexpected into the faces of the audience. Admittedly, Go treads little brand new ground, and borders on the cliché happy endings that America demands, but it is not afraid to try old ideas in new ways and combinations. Pulp Fiction has been succeeded and improved upon by its own offspring. [I.D.].

4K ULTRA HD LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:
4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
Original lossless DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Brand new audio commentary with critics Bryan Reesman and Max Evry
Archival audio commentary with director Doug Liman and editor Stephen Mirrione
From the Word Go, a brand new interview with screenwriter, co-producer and second unit director John August
A View Askew, a brand new interview with actor Desmond Askew
Archival making-of featurette
14 deleted scenes
God, John August’s 1998 short film featuring Melissa McCarthy, shot using the short ends of film stock from the production of Go with much of the same crew, presented in high definition for the first time on home video
Optional audio commentary on God with John August, Melissa McCarthy and editor Douglas Crise
Theatrical trailer
Image gallery
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Ben Beach
Collectors’ booklet featuring new writing on the film by David Michael Brown and Michelle Kisner, and original production notes

Go Original Trailer

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