The Minus Man

I came accross this movie on accident and couldn't believe how well it matched my personality. I wasnt as impressed with the choices for the cast, but the story was something I had been thinking of for a while. A single... Full review

This movie is full of wonderful surprises ... a bit off-beat, as Owen Wilson usually provides, but a spectacular film with incredible acting!! This is a little known film that is sure to please ... rent it and enjoy!!... Full review

What if a really nice guy also happened to be a serial killer? That's one of the questions that this movie asks. Vann is a mild mannered drifter who roams the country preying on lonely people, believing he is sending them... Full review

Everyone should rent this movie, because it's very interesting. I just wonder what happen to the landlord's daughter? Why was the two detective hunting him?... Full review

The drifter Vann Siegert (Owen Wilson) is a polite and good looking man that does not drink, who drives his truck without specific destiny. When he sees people that he thinks deserve to die, he simply poisons them and hides... Full review

Hampton Fancher is a brilliant writer and director. In The Minus Man, he has managed to accomplish several tasks that no one else has be able to do. He is the first director who has cast Janeane Garofalo in a... Full review

Typical Sundance film: weird and off beat. Vann Siegert is not your usual serial killer; no, he slays in peculiar ways. Siegert, a likable drifter, is starting to come unraveled but manages to keep his dark side locked away and... Full review

Spoilers herein.The idea is simple. Films are the most hypnotizing art. The intent of a certain type of actor (and the writer who supports him) is to draw the viewer in through leading-by-following. You always go where the viewer's mind... Full review

"A person's brain is like a pet- sometimes it gets loose, sometimes it gets lost, sometimes it sort of behaves itself and stays in the yard."This film isn't a mystery in the sense of a whodunnit, it's more of an... Full review

"I've never done anything violent to anybody, just the minimum that was necessary. No fear, no pain, they just go to sleep. But after it's done there's no going back, no second chance, if I made a mistake I'll pay... Full review

Most movies of this sort are overexaggerated and cheesy;....she's actually in a good movie this time.....Some might complain that the two stars have very little chemistry....drives his "urge," and that's why it's so damn funny..... ... Full Review

The Minus Man" is as flat and affectless as its central character, Vann Siegert (Owen Wilson). Something of the same theme was explored in a far superior film called "The Stepfather," which is available on video. ... Full Review

Janeane Garofalo is fine as Ferrin, the lonely small-town girl who becomes infatuated with Vann after they begin working together in the local post-office.....The Minus Man 's biggest problem is....an inexplicable scene with Meg Foster parachutes right through the middle of the movie without disturbing a thing -....The Minus Man is a crazy quilt of other movies..... ... Full Review

By the time the credits roll, The Minus Man's many strengths -uniformly excellent cast (which also includes Dwight Yoakam and a surprising Sheryl Crow), clever narrative tricks and direction - leave a definite impression, but not a satisfying one. His unusual relationship with his smitten co-worker, played by the ubiquitous yet consistently under-utilised Janeane Garofalo - thankfully cast against type here - becomes more disturbing than his homicides, simply because the emotional consequences seem much mo ... Full Review

I can safely say that I've never seen a movie quite like The Minus Man before, but that may not necessarily be a good thing. The Minus Man 's disarming plot concerns a blonde, friendly, and charming killer, Vann (Owen Wilson), who meets up with a drifter named Casper (Sheryl Crow) on the road. ... Full Review

Vann, the affable, apparently charming and utterly blank serial killer in The Minus Man, likes to tell this joke about a spider that crawled into his ear when he was a kid -- and then crawled out again. ... Full Article

That scenario, introduced in Lew McCreary's 1990 novel ``The Minus Man,'' was enough to induce screenwriter Hampton Fancher (``Blade Runner'') to direct his first film at 60. The result, also called ``The Minus Man,'' is a half-baked disappointment that opens ... Full Article

Hampton Francher's directorial debut is a thrill-less psychological thriller. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Jeff Stark I f there's anything fascinating about "The Minus Man" -- and that's a big "if" --... ... Full Article

Friday September 10, 1999 At the beginning of Hampton Fancher's eerie, quietly compelling "The Minus Man" a young man washes his pickup truck and takes off from a rural area, and after driving a spell, pulls up to a roadside... ... Full Article

You can say this for The Minus Man: It comes with a darn good pedigree. Hampton Fancher is making his directing debut after scripting such films as Blade Runner and The Mighty Quinn. ... Full Article

Even though The Minus Man belongs to a genre more mired in cliche than most, Fancher's directorial debut is so subtle, elusive and ambiguous that it barely conforms to the conventions of the serial killer movie at all. ... Full Article