| Show - ENTERTAINMENT The SalIt Lake Tribume 'Kalifornia screaming: Was this trip really necessary? ask Kalifornia Riding with a psycho killer is just as fon in this movie as it would be in real life By Sean P Mearts THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Take the worst car trip you ever experienced Imagine all the "Are we there yet?" questions stalled food and engines bad truck-sto- p smelly roadkill Wad it all up and it still won't be as horrible as sitting through "Kalifornia" a disgustingly vile movie about a psychopath killing his way Brian (David Duchmay) is a snooty author writing about murderers He encourages his equally snooty girlfriend Carrie (Michelle Forbes) — a photographer who specializes in erotica — to help on his book They'll drive to California visiting sites of infamous serial killings along the way She'll e e I slow-drawli- 7747rn 4 i 1 t 1211:44 ST14001 Ittl Soo Ni is 1100 SAGAW ALATIPitIS &ALT PISSIPPIIISAll IIISTWK-- dim-bul- b cross-countr- y questions about why Early likes to kill' (Writers may be stupid but were not that stupid) Director Dominic Sena follows the motto of Andre Agassi (whose Nike ads Sena directed): Image is everything He sets up shot after shot of artfully arranged and moodily backlit artifacts — like a junior-gradOrson Welles filming in a giant-sizjunk drawer shoot the pictures while be makes cliched comments into his tape recorder They can't afford to make the car trip alone having spent all their money on Absolut Vodka and designer futons so they place an ad for someone to split gas and driving Enter Early Grayce (played by slob Brad Pitt) a who would be called "white trash" by other white trash and his chatty girlfriend Adele (Jennifer Lewis) After these mismatched folks form their car pool Early introduces Brian to shooting pool and shooting guns while Adele gawkily tries to emulate Carrie But as the foursome crosses Texas Carrie learns of Early's abusive behavior toward Adele and begins to suspect the mayhem Early has left in his wake When the truth comes out Early goes into overdrive degrading Brian and Carrie while killing anyone (zero stars) e psycho-babbl- HARD TARGET (R) j 4:- (R) KALIFORNIA ROOM OF 12:03 120 CALLED LOVE IR) BING BD D1116111111 RA! 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