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...Salton Sea is a body of salt water lying some 225 feet below sea level in California's Imperial Valley. It is a dead lake, and the landscape around it is also desolate and eerie. For obscure reasons, a jazzman, Danny Parker (Val Kilmer), and his wife are vacationing there. They ask for directions at a forbidding house inhabited by methamphetamine dealers. While they are there, masked criminals break in, and Danny's wife is killed by the intruders...
...surprising intricacy of the plotting of The Salton Sea, the self-conscious care with which director D.J. Caruso has composed it and the passionate intensity of its actors all signal a serious effort to break out of its neo-noir roots. At a time when it is hard to remember a big studio film that aspired to anything beyond the top spot at the box office on opening weekend, this kind of ambition is not to be casually dismissed...
...possibly recommend The Salton Sea? If it could, this nasty film would make you smell the disgusting food on the table. And that says nothing about its casual sadism. One spaced-out speed freak has his female companion sandwiched between mattress and box spring, her legs twitching convulsively while he conducts a drug deal. The bad people in this film are, frankly, morons. They are not theoreticians of the theater of cruelty. It is their creators who are confusing the administration of giggly shocks with aesthetic ambition...
Meanwhile, the Slabbers may bake in the sun, but they fall asleep to the sound of coyotes and shower in a fresh spring not far from the banks of the Salton...
...duties of the job weren't as remarkable as what we were looking at," she says. "We had all these photos of the Herters, the Salton-stalls, and I think there were some Roosevelts...