Val Kilmer plays a shell-shocked Marine veteran who lost a leg in Iraq. He drifts around aimlessly for a while after his discharge, but finally gives in to the entreaties of his one and only friend to visit him in Arizona. When he finally gets to the right town, he finds that none of the locals seem to know who the man is and everyone acts like they have something to hide. Kilmer does a little detective work and finds evidence that his buddy's trailer had once been exactly where it was supposed to be. He vows to solve the mystery.

The actual mystery is something out of a grade-B comic book. The entire town is controlled by a corporate CEO who has decided to make it his home and headquarters, and to rebuild the entire town based on John Ford's Westerns. The company's business is to create wars, sell weapons, then rebuild the very countries they have persuaded the U.S. military to destroy. It is called Hallicorp. Get it? The CEO (Gary Cole) and his inner circle are right-wing uber-patriots whose secret agenda is to rebuild the entire Southwest, except this time without those pesky Mexicans. The only thing they hate more than Mexicans is an ex-Marine who asks too many questions about his Mexican friend.

I think I can review the film without actually stating an opinion. At one point Cole actually says to Kilmer. "You in a heap a' trouble, son."

And he was one of the film's more realistic characters!

As you can probably guess, Kilmer eventually finds out that his friend was killed by the vigilantes, and then gets really angry. You wouldn't like him when he's angry. You wouldn't even like him much when he's happy. Eventually the tough, laconic one-legged vet defeats Hallicorp's entire private army of one-dimensional cartoon characters, kills the CEO with his bare hands in front of hundreds of witnesses, destroys the faux-Western buildings, and avoids prosecution so that he can join with the honest god-fearing Mexicans in rebuilding the town with simple, honest labor.

And probably a lot of Adobe.

And a tanker full of pink paint.

How did Kilmer get involved in something this preposterous? Community ties. Kilmer has lived on his ranch in New Mexico since 1983, and acts as an advisor to the New Mexico Film Investment Program. His commitment to that program has stimulated an increase in the state's annual production revenue, from $3 million in 2002 to $117 million in 2006. He has shown a willingness to do what is necessary to bring film projects to his state, and that includes lending his own name to projects when appropriate. This particular project was not a particularly good use of his time, but I'm assuming that his willingness to play the lead is what sealed the deal. Fair enough. At least he has a passion and a commitment for something. If he keeps building up the film business in the area, some of the future projects will be worthwhile. This particular film, in which New Mexico played the part pf Arizona, is just an egg that needed to be broken in order to make that future omelet.

The nudity in this film is utterly gratuitous. The story begins in Iraq, then moves to Arizona. In between, there is a brief section in which Kilmer drifts from the bed of one foreign girl to another in a state of despair and shell-shock after he loses his leg. This woman was just one of the anonymous bodies in his emotionless liaisons. She is however, incredibly beautiful, and her breasts are shown to good advantage in a lengthy scene.

Alesia Riabenkova

Today's look at Snuff-Movie includes a pretty intense "Damsel in Distress" scene.

Lisa Enos with some very delicious full frontal before she becomes a victim who is nailed to a cross.

Teri Simpson with some boobage and a hint of bush in a very dark  scene.