This movie has been described as the new Alvin Purple for the simple reason that the main character has the ability to pick up scores of beautiful women and the audience never knows exactly why. Sure Jasper is a handsome devil but not the sort women would literally throw themselves at. This being said the female characters in this film are sleazy, prostitutes and quite desperate, all keeping in line with the narrative of course. I also found that the quality of women did climb the hill as the film progressed (excuse the pun), so that by the end of the movie his true love did in fact feel and look like the winner he was chasing. The movie was pitched as an action comedy and a thriller, however I found it to be more of a tortured love story/drama. It was much slower in pace than Hill's previous work, but falls short in overall running time I believe. Maybe someone should get onto publishing a Jasper calendar because there sure is enough women in the film to fill a whole 12 months.
