"This World, Then The Fireworks" could never have made it as a commercial picture. But I'm convinced that I and a chosen few others will turn it into one of the tiniest cult flicks ever. Put out by Billy Zane at about the same time as "Titanic", it went straight to video. Billy and Gina Gershon (who not only actually look like twins but are also eerily similar in their appeal, i.e. the smoky-voiced, dangerously-seductive, black-haired, black-eyed 40's crime noir sex bomb thing) are Marty and Carol, two people who are, as the box clearly states, very good at being very bad. Lots of people will hate this one. I went into it not sure what to expect but I had rented it just to drool over Billy (his character was a jerk in "Titanic", but Leo still wasn't the only eye candy.) Anyway, I was hooked from scene one, during which several people get shot on the twins' fourth birthday, including a pair of naked lovers. The twins just cackle away, while Billy intones in his drawl voice-over that someone was dead and somebody else spent the rest of his life in jail, and their mom was never the same, but that "they were naked, and it was funny." (Don't ask. Just see the movie.) What follows is just as wonderfully twisted. Check out Marty's televangelist speech! Later on, while Carol laments life, Marty calmly hypothesizes "It was all thought up long ago, by a strange and crazy god. He spoke, and that's when all the sh*t started happening." It's seriously wicked, and not for all tastes. Film noir has been done better, certainly, but the era is evoked well, and it's certainly an experience. This is a worthwhile rental.