Las Vegas Strip Clubs: Saint John of Las Vegas doubles down with typecast Buscemi performance
March 3, 2010 by diamond
John works as a cube rat at an Albuquerque, N.M., car insurance company, and the script doesn’t specify the extent of his earlier gambling problem. His now-craggy features and seedy sideburns hint that John’s slowly climbing up from the bottom. Outside his cube farm job, John allows himself to purchase scratch-off Lotto cards as a measure of whether his ill fortunes have turned. Buscemi’s trademark staccato delivery makes a kind of music when he asks a Quik-E-Mart clerk for “three Grand Gimmes, four Who’s Your Daddies and eight Mega-Mega-Megas.”
Seeking a raise, John finds himself reassigned to the company’s fraud division where he accompanies silent, seething Virgil (Romany Malco) to investigate a suspicious accident. Oh, and did I mention that John shares a last name with Dante Alighieri, author of the epic vision of the afterlife, The Divine Comedy? Rhodes turns Saint John of Las Vegas into a tour of the nine circles of hell, represented by scuzzy strip clubs, casinos, and car impound yards in the …