Shortly after filming had finished on his star-studded drugs caper Go in 1998, the screenwriter John August had a meeting with an executive at Warner Bros. “He said, ‘Oh, you did that movie Go? Our movie’s going to crush you’,” recalls August today. “Then he played the trailer for The Matrix!”
As part of a class of on-the-pulse films released in 1999, Go might sit at the other end of the spectrum to The Matrix, but – 25 years on – it’s arguably the most zeitgeisty late-Nineties film of them all: a randy, twisty, non-linear, hyper-cool, ecstasy-powered film for the Scream generation. With a soundtrack dominated by seminal one hit wonder Len’s “Steal My Sunshine” and starring Dawson’s Creek’s Katie Holmes, no less, it’s a movie that throws you right back to a very different moment in popular culture: the days of No Doubt on the radio, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater on the PlayStation and Celebrity Deathmatch on MTV.
