**SPOILERS** Beautifully photographed in the Redwood country of Northern California "Quite Cool" has to do with this ruthless gang of pot or marijuana grower who are anything but the peaceful hippie type that were so used to seeing in movies about the subject.
Lead by this, what's obviously, Elvis impersonator the unemotional Valance, Nick Cassavetes,this group of pot growers run the entire town of Babylon, pop.163, including the towns police chief Mike Prior, Jared Martin, with an iron hand. Things got a little wild when the young and rosy cheeked Joshua Greer, Adam Coleman Howard, happened to spy on Vanance and his boys gun down an FBI informer who was set up by a member the town's corrupt police.
Wanting no witnesses to their crime the Valance gang end up murdering both of Joshua's parents Mr. & Mrs. Greer, Gregory Wagrowski & Pulette Walsh, who were picnicking in the woods. Joshua, the person that Valance & Co. were really after, got away by falling down a 100 foot cliff and almost drowning in the rushing stream below.
Getting a collect call from California NYPD undercover cop Joe Dylanne, James Remar, is told by Joshua's sister Kathy, Daphna Ashbrook, who' also Joe's ex-girlfriend to come quick and find her lost brother whom she hasn't seen or heard from in over a week. Joe taking an emergency vacation drives out to Bablyon to get to the bottom of what's going on there. It turns out that Joe ended up getting involved, up to his neck, with the both Valance gang and the real Mr. Big of Valance's operation some dude only known as "The Man".
Joe a man of the law is anything but law abiding when it comes to dealing with the bad guys in the movie. Finding Joshua hiding in the woods around Babylon conducting a guerrilla war against the Valance Gang Joe chides him on not letting the law do its work in putting Valance and his boys behind bars. Nice talk on Joe's part but it turns out that he doesn't practice what he preaches. No one in the movie that Joe ends up putting away, for breaking the law, are as much as read their rights. Thay all, with the exception of the either mindless or lobotomized roller skater at the beginning of the film, end up being blown away by Joe & Joshua without as much as a thought of the law being allowed to do its job!
The Valance Gang seem to be either stoned out of their heads or just plain brain-dead in how they go about in doing things in the movie. There are times when Valance & Co don't as much as say a word to each other but just move around zombie-like and communicate with each other not by talking but by some kind of telepathy! Joe soon gets the drop on the Valance gang who are so deeply involved in a card game at their pot compound that they don't even notice, after failing a number of times to blow them up, Joe planting a stick on nitroglycerin right under their feet!
By the time the movie is almost over we get the big surprise, or better yet non-surprise, in just who both Valance and police chief Prior's boss, the mysterious "The Man", really is. The surprise of "The Man's" true identify is that you forgot that he even existed, he was only mentioned up to that time only once in the entire film, and had no idea just who he was and what he had to do with anything going on in the film!
Lead by this, what's obviously, Elvis impersonator the unemotional Valance, Nick Cassavetes,this group of pot growers run the entire town of Babylon, pop.163, including the towns police chief Mike Prior, Jared Martin, with an iron hand. Things got a little wild when the young and rosy cheeked Joshua Greer, Adam Coleman Howard, happened to spy on Vanance and his boys gun down an FBI informer who was set up by a member the town's corrupt police.
Wanting no witnesses to their crime the Valance gang end up murdering both of Joshua's parents Mr. & Mrs. Greer, Gregory Wagrowski & Pulette Walsh, who were picnicking in the woods. Joshua, the person that Valance & Co. were really after, got away by falling down a 100 foot cliff and almost drowning in the rushing stream below.
Getting a collect call from California NYPD undercover cop Joe Dylanne, James Remar, is told by Joshua's sister Kathy, Daphna Ashbrook, who' also Joe's ex-girlfriend to come quick and find her lost brother whom she hasn't seen or heard from in over a week. Joe taking an emergency vacation drives out to Bablyon to get to the bottom of what's going on there. It turns out that Joe ended up getting involved, up to his neck, with the both Valance gang and the real Mr. Big of Valance's operation some dude only known as "The Man".
Joe a man of the law is anything but law abiding when it comes to dealing with the bad guys in the movie. Finding Joshua hiding in the woods around Babylon conducting a guerrilla war against the Valance Gang Joe chides him on not letting the law do its work in putting Valance and his boys behind bars. Nice talk on Joe's part but it turns out that he doesn't practice what he preaches. No one in the movie that Joe ends up putting away, for breaking the law, are as much as read their rights. Thay all, with the exception of the either mindless or lobotomized roller skater at the beginning of the film, end up being blown away by Joe & Joshua without as much as a thought of the law being allowed to do its job!
The Valance Gang seem to be either stoned out of their heads or just plain brain-dead in how they go about in doing things in the movie. There are times when Valance & Co don't as much as say a word to each other but just move around zombie-like and communicate with each other not by talking but by some kind of telepathy! Joe soon gets the drop on the Valance gang who are so deeply involved in a card game at their pot compound that they don't even notice, after failing a number of times to blow them up, Joe planting a stick on nitroglycerin right under their feet!
By the time the movie is almost over we get the big surprise, or better yet non-surprise, in just who both Valance and police chief Prior's boss, the mysterious "The Man", really is. The surprise of "The Man's" true identify is that you forgot that he even existed, he was only mentioned up to that time only once in the entire film, and had no idea just who he was and what he had to do with anything going on in the film!