In this fact-based film, John Holmes (Val Kilmer) is one of the most successful porn stars of all time, and the center of a brutal crime scene, where four people found dead. Is he innocent? Or if not, what leads him to that situation?
The main interest here is the acting, which is, by turns, entertaining or just entertainingly bad, with lots of grungy seriousness and Method-trained twitching, but also some moments of real gusto.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
January 29, 2005
*Violent and blaring ... a vibrant bit of tabloid trash infotainment, a guilty pleasure for those with a taste for bittersweet candy.
Common Sense Media
December 29, 2010
Very sordid and unexpectedly dull; adults only.
Orlando Sentinel
October 24, 2003
Sometimes Wonderland does make you wonder why you're wasting your time with these losers. But there's also a lot here that stays with you.
Lessons of Darkness
July 29, 2005
Unwarrantedly interested in B-list celebrity-gone-to-seed.
A film whose effects are as hard to wash away as blood.
Washington Post
October 17, 2003
Overblown, overheated, overdirected, overacted, overlong and over here, in the local bijoux.
ColeSmithey.com
June 14, 2009
Val Kilmer ("The Salton Sea") fails to manifest the eccentric character of notorious porn legend Johnny "Wadd" Holmes in this artful but unbalanced dramatization of the gruesome 1981 Laurel Canyon murders that Holmes was implicated in committing.
