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Summary: Amanda Peet steals the show!
Review: This is one of the funniest comedies to be realesed this year! Matthew Perry stars as a dentist, with a life that he hates. His wife (played by a great Rosanne Arquette), hates his guts, and takes every chance she can to get him killed. On top of all this, he has just found out that the guy next door, is one of the most famous contract killers in the US, Jimmy the Tulipe (Bruce Willis). His wife then forces him to travel to Chicago to give Jimmy up to the guys Jummy betrayed in order to get a shorter jailsentence a few years earlier.Matthew Perry does his Chandler act, but it works in these types of movies, and Willis is good as the charming contract killer. But the real joy in watching this movie, lies in the co-stars, topped by Amanda Peet (from Jack & Jill) as Matthew's dorky assistent and assasin wannabe. Her beautiful smile, and great action acting, makes her the Sandra Bullock of the new millenium. Michael Clarke Duncan (who co-starred with Willis in Armageddon) stars as Willis side-kick killer Frankie Figgs, and his massive musclestructure makes him the coolest guy on screen at all times! We also get to watch beautiful Natasha Henstridge as Jimmy's beautiful wife, and Kevin Polack, as mobster Jani Gogo. This movie is 90 minutes of pure joy! It's feel-good-movie, that makes you smile as you walks out of the theatre. /Fredrik
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Summary: tepid gangster comedy
Review: Coming as it does so hot on the heels of the recent `Analyze This' and `Mickey Blue Eyes,' `The Whole Nine Yards' is, regrettably, not as fresh as it might otherwise have been. Here again we have the tale of an Average Joe/ Everyman type, who, through a set of quirky and bizarre circumstances, finds himself, totally against his own will and better judgment, knee-deep in mob-centered activities. The film's chief strength, beyond the uniqueness of its French Canadian setting, rests in the cleverly convoluted plot writer Mitchell Kapner and director Jonathan Lynn have concocted centered around a Montreal dentist named Oz whose life takes a decidedly dramatic turn when a hit-man-turned-informer known as Jimmy `The Tulip' Tedeski moves in next door. This happenstance sets in motion an amazing roller coaster ride for Oz as he becomes enmeshed in internecine squabbles between assorted gangster hit men, marital entanglements involving himself and Jimmy's beautiful wife and burgeoning true love. Unfortunately, the weakness of the film also rests in its screenplay whose humor is often too broad, too self-conscious and too reliant on conventional double takes - particularly on the part of the understandably befuddled and flabbergasted Oz - to be truly funny. There is no denying the fact that the film does generate an impressive amount of raucous energy - but without the wit necessary to bring out the subtle nuances of the material, the movie ends up tiring us out long before the midpoint of its 100-minute long running time. The acting, too, seems rather uneven. As Oz, Matthew Perry tries hard to nail down the part, but he simply lacks the charisma necessary to pull off a role of this magnitude. He ends up delivering a one-note performance consisting mainly of non-stop dithering. And how long ago was it that Rosanna Arquette once seemed to be a fine actress? As in most of her recent performances, she simply relies on superficial mannerisms to build her character - that of Oz's utterly amoral (and unconvincingly French-accented) wife whose villainy must be a crucial element in the film's overall credibility. She seems to be playacting rather than truly exploring the subtle depths of her character. Even comedy requires an edge and this Arquette will not (or perhaps cannot) provide. On the positive side, Amanda Peel provides spunk and energy as a neophyte `hit woman' who literally salivates at the thought of meeting her `hero,' the world-renowned Jimmy `The Tulip.' Which brings us to the real quality element of `The Whole Nine Yards' - Bruce Willis' first-rate interpretation of the killer-next-door. In a performance of sustained multi-leveled complexity, Willis provides the perfect combination of sly devilishness, steely-eyed seriousness and understated affability essential to making Jimmy a truly likeable comic villain. Willis really seems to be having the time of his life in this role. Unfortunately, thanks to an overall lack of originality in the film's conception and a script that seems less humorous than it might have been, the same cannot be said for the audience.
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Summary: Not exactly a comedy classic....
Review: The Whole Nine Yards had some very parts, and I thought that comic timing of Matthew Perry was very good. He is the knack to do physical comedy, and he pulls it off very well. The story itself certainly did hold my interest, watching Perry and Willis as neighbors, and all the deception..You never quite know who is deceiving who. One thing that really ruined this movie for me was rosanna arquette, she was very annoying and can't do a french accent for the life of her. She should go back to acting class too.. Other than her, it really isn't a bad movie, it's good for a few laughs, and if you like Michael Clarke Duncan as well as Willis and Perry, you'll enjoy the rental.
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Summary: Wack&Boring
Review: First of all can anyone from The TV.Show Friends Act in Movies? I Have Yet to see that.This Film is A 2nd tier Get Shorty.Bruce Willis Should Throw in The Towel he hasn't done a Good Film in Ages.Well Make that at Least an Average Film in Many Years.Micahel Clarke Duncan is a Good Talent but this isn't The Green Mile more like The Green Dough as in Getting Paid.Rosanna Arquette Couldn't act back in the day and she still is Wack.this film was good for sleeping.Boring& a played out Story line.
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Summary: Outrageously funny
Review: What a refreshing twist: The Bad Guys v. The Bad Guys, with an ordinary shmuck, A Good Guy, ending up as the hero. It's a highly convoluted tale, but the twists and turns are easy to follow, delightful and surprising. The Bad Guys pivot on Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski (Bruce Willis) and the Good Guy role pivots on Nicholas "Oz" Oseransky (Matthew Perry), a dentist who seems condemned to a life of providing luxuries for Sophie, his greedy wife. I wondered how many retakes were required to produce some of the scenes that require split-second timing, as Oz tries to act cool when he faces each new revelation that he's high man on everybody's hit list... At a couple of points I was laughing so hard, I had to stop the tape for fear of missing what came next. No film has ever cracked me up like this one. Three cheers for the cast and director that pulled it off.
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Summary: A very good watch
Review: This is a pretty fun film, and i found myself enjoying it a great deal more than i thought i was going to. perry is excellent and very funny. bruce willis was good, but seemed similar to some of his other roles. The action was good and the interaction clever. several surprises made this a very enjoyable film and well worth the money.
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Summary: Very funny and creative
Review: One of the year's most comical movies I have ever seen. All the twists and turns keeps you at the edge of your seat the entire movie.
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Summary: It's a comedy!
Review: This is one of the years funniest comedies. Of course it isn't a great film, but it's hillarious. i think that most people would give this film four or five stars, but poeple here are giving it three stars, two stars, because it's not a great movie. it's a great comedy, and if you're ordering it, take time to write a review. Even if you didn't plan to. Just say how you like it and give it a good rating. people on this site are trying to be critics.
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Summary: Clever, silly comedy
Review: Clever, silly comedy about a hit man, Jimmy (The Tulip) Tudeski, who moves in next door to a dentist (Matthew Perry) in suburban Montreal. Bruce Willis stars as Jimmy, and he is good as the nice-but-tough killer. Perry, although very similar to his Chandler character from `Friends', displays a nice touch of physical comedy; his character seems actually that nice that the bizarre events in this film are actually happening to him. Amanda Peet and Natasha Henstridge are beautiful and Peet is very funny as Perry's dental assistant, Michael Clarke Duncan is terrific as Frankie Figgs, enforcer, and Rosanna Arquette displays a terrific French-Canadian accent as Perry's miserable wife. The only bad acting: the usually hilarious Kevin Pollak as a Hungarian crime lord with pronunciation problems (maybe's there's a Keyser Soze reference in there somewhere?) Also, nice Montreal scenery and a good jazzy score. Here's a prediction: Amanda Peet will have a successful film career.
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Summary: TRANSPARENT AND BORING
Review: This was possibly the worst film I have had the "pleasure" to view this year. Perry is a very tiring actor to watch in the first place and his efforts to go from the small screen to the big screen just shows that the transistion is almost always disasterous. The movie contains absolutely no suprises or genuine laughs, I found myself forcing a smile so I wouldn't feel this DVD was a total waste, but in the long run I couldn't fool my face into smiling. I think Bruce Willis was using this film merely to make a paycheck. "Hit Man" humor may on the surface look funny but this movie didn't work. I can see why it bombed at the Box Office. I love Amazon.COM and buy all my books and DVD's from here, but I would strongly urge anyone from buying this DVD. Wait until it comes on T.V., its NOT EVEN WORTH A PRICE OF RENTAL!
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