Mystery Train: A Paragraph Review

You should watch Mystery Train if you like the music of Elvis Presley. You should watch Mystery Train if you prefer the music of Carl Perkins. And you should watch Mystery Train if you know anything about Stax Records. In short, you should probably just watch Mystery Train. It's a Jim Jarmusch movie, with the expected interweaving stories and elliptical conversations. What makes it awesome though is the chemistry between Cinqué Lee (yep- Spike's brother) and, of all people, Screaming Jay Hawkins. Lee is the bellhop and Hawkins the desk clerk in a rundown Memphis motel, and it's hard to describe how amazing they are without repeating their scenes verbatim. But they're not nearly as amusing if you can't also hear Hawkins rumbling, Voice of God tones, so let's just say that they create the funniest scene involving a Japanese plum since The Simpsons. And if you're a right-thinking person, that's all you need to know about the validity of this film.