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Val Kilmer plays a drugged-up, bottomed-out John Holmes in this loose telling of the brutal 1981 Wonderland murder case. Featuring a number of competing perspectives about what exactly led to the killings, including several different versions of the same scene, the film's idea is to leave ultimate judgment to the audience. Instead, the lack of conviction just results in a hazy, jumbled, inconclusive mess of rumor and uncertainty. Kilmer is miscast as the shady, self-serving loser at his wits' end, constantly turning on the charisma when his character should be cowering and sniveling. His big-name supporting cast produces similarly phoned-in performances, while a glut of gimmicky after effects gives the whole picture the kind of sparkly, overproduced sheen that's usually reserved for car commercials. A drab, ambiguous, morally vacant jumble that tugs its barely-famous subjects' coat tails for as long as it can.