Easily the worst film I have seen in a while. A bad film that has good reviews, a good imdb rating, and a decent star always just baffles me.Tim Robbins plays a Hollywood Producer in the middle of a murder scandal which resembles the styling of some classic Film Noir pictures. The main actress is played by Greta Scacchi, yeah... you don't know her, because she wasn't good and hasn't been in anything else worth watching. Get this... the detectives are played by Whoopi Goldberg and Lyle Lovett... so you can guess how dramatic and realistic their performances are [sarcasm].
Robbins had a number of good 80's films where he wasn't exactly the main character, such as Bull Durham and Top Gun. A notable film I reviewed last year was Jacob's Ladder which he starred in, and of course the 90's hit The Shawshank Redemption. Maybe it has something to do with the type of character he plays. In all of these films he played a jock (Nuke in Bull Durham, "Merlin" in Top Gun, and a Vietnam vet Jacob Singer in Jacob's Ladder). All of these characters weren't all that competent, then when you come to his masterful performance as Andy Dufresne it really strikes me that the meager demeanor and childishness works for him. So the big shot Hollywood Executive role just didn't fit, he was grossly miscast in this film, and made it seem like the film was a joke or spoof.
The single redeeming quality of this film was the number of classic film references that are made. I have seen just about all the classic they discuss when he talks about what kinds of films they look to produce. So this part was fun. Overall it was just horrible, avoid this one.
Vote: 2/10
IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105151/
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