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Summary: Not a classic, but good fun to see.
Review: This movie is a well made black comedy.
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Summary: Won't win Academy Award, but much better than you'd expect.
Review: This movie is much better than you'd expect, but you need to be careful. There are parts of it that are gut-bustingly funny (like the two "writer-producers" that wanna be Quentin Tarantino, the interviews with the kid "hero"), but there is also some graphic violence in spots in there. When the latter shows up there is no warning, it's meant to jolt you, so keep this in mind when deciding who should see it. This is intentionally a two thrust movie. If you've ever seen the movie "Fright Night" (also much better than it sounds), you'll understand. Remember in that movie how the first half seemed to be a good comedy and then about half way through the movie essentially flipped and became a really good vampire movie? An even older example was the 1970 Godfrey Cambridge movie "Watermelon Man". Starts out as a comedy and then when you're hooked morphs into a powerful tale of racial prejudice. They do a similar thing here, except that they deliberately go back and forth. They are trying to keep you off balance here and it works. The film keeps the pace up and never drags. Denis Leary and Elizabeth Hurley play their parts well and believably. Although some of the situation is definitely a stretch, hey--it's a movie! In short, this movie is defintiely recommended. It's not a Great movie, but it is a Good movie. Nobody will mistake this for a cinematic masterpiece, but it's better than 90% of what's out there. It gets four stars for effort and entertainment value, and not pretending to be more than it is. Your time and money will not be wasted on this one.
Rating:
Summary: Won't win Academy Award, but much better than you'd expect.
Review: This movie is much better than you'd expect, but you need to be careful. There are parts of it that are gut-bustingly funny (like the two "writer-producers" that wanna be Quentin Tarantino, the interviews with the kid "hero"), but there is also some graphic violence in spots in there. When the latter shows up there is no warning, it's meant to jolt you, so keep this in mind when deciding who should see it. This is intentionally a two thrust movie. If you've ever seen the movie "Fright Night" (also much better than it sounds), you'll understand. Remember in that movie how the first half seemed to be a good comedy and then about half way through the movie essentially flipped and became a really good vampire movie? An even older example was the 1970 Godfrey Cambridge movie "Watermelon Man". Starts out as a comedy and then when you're hooked morphs into a powerful tale of racial prejudice. They do a similar thing here, except that they deliberately go back and forth. They are trying to keep you off balance here and it works. The film keeps the pace up and never drags. Denis Leary and Elizabeth Hurley play their parts well and believably. Although some of the situation is definitely a stretch, hey--it's a movie! In short, this movie is defintiely recommended. It's not a Great movie, but it is a Good movie. Nobody will mistake this for a cinematic masterpiece, but it's better than 90% of what's out there. It gets four stars for effort and entertainment value, and not pretending to be more than it is. Your time and money will not be wasted on this one.
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Summary: Greatest Movie ever
Review: This movie was awesome. It has so many plots that come together very well in the end. I couldn't stop watching the movie i have watched over 5 times in one day. I highly recomend it. It has the Guy From scrubs, Dennis Leary, Elizabeth Hurley, and my favorite actor Steve Buschemi.
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Summary: The best film about NEW YORK CITY since Do The Right Thing..
Review: Tom DiCillo, one of America's most innovative and subtle filmmakers, brings his wry humor, offhanded intelligence, and buoyant compassion to this story of a young Puerto Rican girl who wants to kill her father, and the cop who lives next door. Intellectually, the film explores the uses of art -- those who use it to exploit and titillate versus those who use it to investigate and heal -- while emotionally the movie explores trauma in a madcap way that is as funny as it is disturbing. There is an oddness to this film that is a mark of a true artist -- we are witnessing an original and difficult-to-assimilate voice here, grappling with profound questions in a way we are not used to. There's no grandiose narcissism here, announcing its brilliance and importance at every turn -- only the mind's and heart's turnings of that rarity in film -- a director who is unconcerned with fame, but deeply concerned with morality and truth. The film is epic but intimate, deeply sad and profoundly celebratory. The reason it wasn't released, and the reason that shallow thinkers find the movie unsuccessful, is that it does what Wallace Stevens says poetry should do: it "almost resists the intelligence successfully."
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Summary: what has happened to Denis over the years?
Review: With Denis Leary and Steve Buscemi in this movie you would think this would be a non-stop laugh riot right? WRONG!. If you like jay leno/Johnny Carson kinda' jokes, then maybe. I thought this movie was very disorganize, very mild in humor, more of a drama/love story, and had about the same enjoyment as stepping on your kids toys in the middle of the night. Denis, please go back to stand up! (I love his "no cure for cancer"!!!!!!)
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