When people talk about movies "so bad they're good," they're not talking about movies like CRIMEWAVE. "Bad but good" would imply that there was something Good somewhere in the movie. Without reservation, I hereby proclaim CRIMEWAVE the succesor to Ed Wood's much-maligned (but suddenly not as bad as I'd originally thought) PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE. Working with a lot less, Wood went down swinging; Raimi manages to just go down. Way down. Those cinescribes the Coen Bros. are culpable, as well. (It's a toss-up as to who deserves the lion's share of the blame for this one: the Coens are as inconsistent as Raimi himself.) I was hoping that my memories of this one had somehow become distorted over the years and that it wasn't as bad as I'd remembered; unfortunately, that's not the case: I remembered this one for the turkey it truly is. Raimi has done some great movies over the years, and he'll no doubt do many more, but CRIMEWAVE (no matter how you cut it) will never be one of them. It stinks- on ice.
