Las Vegas Strip Clubs: Saint John craps out in Las Vegas
February 5, 2010 by diamond
Johnny’s boss, Mr. Townsend (Peter Dinklage, for once playing a character whose height doesn’t enter into it), decides to try him on a higher calling, fraud investigation. With a veteran investigator named Virgil (Romany Malco from The 40-Year-Old Virgin), Johnny is to go to Vegas to look into the case of a stripper named Miss Tasty D Lite who has crashed her 1970 Buick Wildcat and now wants $180,000 in compensation.
The resulting road trip takes Virgil and Johnny through what is apparently meant to be a kind of American Inferno, visiting car junkyards, desert strip clubs, carnivals, and casinos. Johnny has a certain desperation — a Buscemi trademark — but it appears to be less a problem of existential doubt and more a feeling of exasperation with the incoherent plot.