The Sort of Movie You'd Wish on Your Worst Enemy

Pretty bad, with a few (almost) redeeming parts

Bridget Fonda pre-fame in movie that alienates its target audience

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It's hard to think that something as simple and easy to say as "I love you" could be such a problem. You have to be careful who you fall in love with. The three of us have always known each other, and maybe... well, maybe we should have stayed just friends. For them, friendship was everything.

Cary Elwes and James Le Gros in Leather Jackets (1991)

Bridget Fonda and D.B. Sweeney in Leather Jackets (1991)

D.B. Sweeney

Bridget Fonda

Judi Trevor

Lee Drysdale

Violence, betrayal and unabashed sensuality collide when beautiful young Claudi, about to marry Mickey, finds herself caught up in the aftermath of a deadly rivalry involving Mickey&apos;s best friend, Dobbs.

Leather Jackets

The Sort of Movie You&apos;d Wish on Your Worst Enemy

&quot;Leather Jackets&quot; is (probably) not the worst movie ever made; it only seems that way while you&apos;re sitting through it, wondering why you even bother while some sort of morbid fascination keeps you rooted in place as you tell yourself it can&apos;t get much worse -- even while it proceeds to do so.  It&apos;s a movie that would have been right at home back in the good old days of the &quot;troubled youth&quot; B-films of the 50s (although they&apos;d have had to clean up the language considerably); nobody really expected those films to make any sense or to bother with such amenities as plot coherence or character motivations.  Sadly, however, time has marched on and D.B. Sweeney&apos;s Mickey is a moron (seven years he&apos;s carried a torch for Claudi and he&apos;s never noticed that she&apos;s the town punch?) while Cary Elwes&apos; Dobbs is the sort of creature you instinctively want to step on (but only if you&apos;re not wearing your good shoes).  Not much to root for between those two, and the most positive thing to be said for them is that the Vietnamese gangboys who are chasing them seem to be no better.  Ironically, the only character who does prompt any real sympathy is Bridget Fonda&apos;s Claudi -- but even that&apos;s not enough once you find yourself wondering what the hell she&apos;s doing with these losers in the first place. All in all, a downer of a film, a downer of an ending, a downer of a way to waste a couple of hours . . .

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"Leather Jackets" is (probably) not the worst movie ever made; it only seems that way while you're sitting through it, wondering why you even bother while some sort of morbid fascination keeps you rooted in place as you tell yourself it can't get much worse -- even while it proceeds to do so.  It's a movie that would have been right at home back in the good old days of the "troubled youth" B-films of the 50s (although they'd have had to clean up the language considerably); nobody really expected those films to make any sense or to bother with such amenities as plot coherence or character motivations.  Sadly, however, time has marched on and D.B. Sweeney's Mickey is a moron (seven years he's carried a torch for Claudi and he's never noticed that she's the town punch?) while Cary Elwes' Dobbs is the sort of creature you instinctively want to step on (but only if you're not wearing your good shoes).  Not much to root for between those two, and the most positive thing to be said for them is that the Vietnamese gangboys who are chasing them seem to be no better.  Ironically, the only character who does prompt any real sympathy is Bridget Fonda's Claudi -- but even that's not enough once you find yourself wondering what the hell she's doing with these losers in the first place. All in all, a downer of a film, a downer of an ending, a downer of a way to waste a couple of hours . . .

Violence, betrayal and unabashed sensuality collide when beautiful young Claudi, about to marry Mickey, finds herself caught up in the aftermath of a deadly rivalry involving Mickey's best friend, Dobbs.

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