This "Remix" edition of Allan Moyle's music store ensemble comedy restores several missing scenes, but cannot quite rescue what remains an uneven piece of fluff.
A companion piece to Moyle's superior Pump Up The Volume, Empire Records strums the same basic chords ('the man' is the enemy; music kicks ass) but fails to pick out a fresh tune. Chiefly this is because whereas Volume had a likeable, voluble hero (Christian Slater's Hard Harry), Records has too many characters and too little to say. That's not the actors' fault; the cast make a decent fist of it - even those who have gone nowhere since - but ultimately there are just too many of them to care about it.