If there's one thing I learned from sitting down with John Cusack for a half hour last week, it's that the "High Fidelity" star contains multitudes. Apparently, so do his movies.
"It's a kind of a mercenary Samurai movie," he said of "War, Inc."
"It's kind of a satiric, adult comic strip," he added later.
"It's very much like 'Strangelove' set in the future, very dark and twisted," he amended finally.
Forget the tone, Cusack's next flick is the movie so nice they named it twice. "It's called 'Brand Hauser,'" Cusack corrected. "It's on the web right now as 'War, Inc.' but that was for the foreign sales guys."
Please, Mr. Cusack, give us something we can hang our hats on. "I play an assassin who is going to go to the Middle East to kill an oil minister who is going to build a pipeline through his own country without Haliburton's approval," Cusack said of the film's plot. "It's almost set in the next place that America would invade if the people who sent us to Iraq had their way."
Cusack has an easier time of it describing Jan de Bont's "Stopping Power," because, well, it might just be the most kick-ass movie ever made, centered around the longest car chase in history. "There's a pretty amazing chase that gets sustained, kind of like 'The French Connection,'" Cusack divulged. "Imagine that for 65 minutes! It's pretty wild."
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