Remarquez ils sont TOUS excellents...Juliette Lewis est incroyable dans son rôle de nunuche et Brad Pitt...é-pou-van-ta-ble (au sens littéral...propre quoi)...bien qu'il ne soit pas trop propret justement dans ce rôle d'assassin;franchement immonde même. Duchovny que je vois pour la troisième fois est impeccable;bien meilleur que dans X FILES (il n'était pas mauvais d'ailleurs mais j'ai aîmé le film moyennement)

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This is a very impressive psychological thriller

Author: Philip Van der Veken from Tessenderlo, Belgium
26 February 2005

I had seen 'Kalifornia' before (must be about 10 years ago) and I still remember to be very impressed by it. That's why I wanted to see it again and all I can  say is that it still hasn't lost its power, even though I'm used to a lot more when it comes to movies than that I was ten years ago.

'Kalifornia' tells the tale of the writer Brian Kessler and his girlfriend Carrie Laughlin, a photographer, who want to move to California. But instead of stepping on  a plain and flying right to the state where they say it never rains,they choose to make a trip by car.He wants to write a book about America's most famous serial killers and she will make the matching pictures. But because their car uses an enormous amount of petrol, they decide to take another couple with  them, so they can spread the costs of the trip. Only one couple has answered the add, so they will automatically be the lucky ones. But they haven't met  each other yet and when seeing the other couple for the first time, when their trip has already started, Carrie is shocked. Without wanting to be prejudiced,

she can only conclude that Early Grayce and Adele Corners are poor white trailer park trash. She definitely doesn't want them in her car, but Brian doesn't  really mind to take them with them and decides to stop and pick them up anyway. At first the couple doesn't seem to be that bad after all, but gradually Early  Grayce changes from a trashy hillbilly into a remorseless murderer... Not only is the story very impressive, so is the acting from our four leads. Brad Pitt is incredible as Early Grayce. His performance in this movie may well be his best ever. The same for Juliette Lewis. She plays the childish and naive girlfriend that doesn't want to hear a bad word about her Early and does that really very well. But David Duchovny and Michelle Forbes are a surprise as well. They both did a very good job and I really wonder why we never heard anything from Forbes again since this movie, because she really proves to have a lot of talent.

Overall this is a very good and impressive psychological thriller with a very powerful story, but because of the graphic violence, I can imagine that it may not  be to everybody's taste (although I don't really see another way how to portray a serial killer in a believable way). Personally I really liked this movie a lot and  the violence never bothered me (it's a part of the story that's too important to be left out). I reward this movie with an 8/10.