Midnight Cowboy

            Meet Joe Buck. Jon Voigt (Anaconda) stars as this southern Texas fake Cowboy. He’s a cowboy, but not a real one. This dishwasher has quit his job and after saving up a bit, he’s headed to the big city to be a big time hustler. Joe doesn’t know anything about anything really, and the first half of the movie is a picture of failed dreams in the big city. Joe goes around naïve, and foolish, quickly blowing his savings and getting swindled, and never quite making it as a hustler.

            Enter Enrique Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman, Wag the Dog), aka, Ratso. Prime New York Scum. Ratso has his own dreams, of making it big and then retiring to Miami. He’s just a two bit conman, and can’t really put anything together, and he’s a bum, and a cripple. They meet and he promptly swindles Joe Buck, but they connect later, and begin to bond as friends.

            It’s supposed to be provocative, and edgy, but, it’s really just weird, and kinda boring. The powerful scenes, and the craziness of the lives these guys lead is kinda gritty, but overall, it lacks. I’m gonna give this a 1, because, it’s just not all it’s cracked up to be. We start to see the depth of character at the end, as the boys attend an acid party, and then depart for Miami as Ratso lays dying, but, too little too late.

            This movie is DOA, just like Rizzo, and poor Joe Buck does a good job, but, blooms to late to make this movie worth it.