One Night At McCool's
by ALEXANDER WALKER, Evening Standard
Enter from nowhere, in a red dress that seems to end at her hips, a breathy-voiced femme fatale (Liv Tyler) who seduces three men in McCool's bar.
The bartender (Matt Dillon) shacks up with her, then finds she has all the bloodsucking talents of a vampire homemaker; his randy lawyer cousin (Paul Reiser), who's into bondage, offers himself in chains and a dog leash; and a portly detective (John Goodman) confesses to his priest, over whisky in a Communion cup, that she's the spitting image of his late wife.
Meantime, a hired hit man (Michael Douglas in a ginger pompadour) bides his time.
A black comedy from Harald Swart, a maker of Dutch commercials - and frequently looking like one - its sexist crudity is partially amended by the neatness of its overlapping stories, a few good sight gags (mostly involving Reiser) and a Monty Pythonesque last-shot surprise.
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