Friday, January 23, 2004
The other movie I saw yesterday was The Adventures of Pluto Nash. I got it through Netflix so I paid for it but I didn't really pay for it. I didn't see any bad reviews for this movie. That's because I didn't see any reviews for it. It was barely in theatres and they didn't screen it for critics and, since critics and the media outlets they work for it are cheap, no critics reviewed it. Hence, all I knew about the movie was that it starred Eddie Murphy as a nightclub owner on the moon, Rosario Dawson as the female lead and Randy Quaid as a robot.
First of all, the movie wasn't that bad. Studios put out, screen, and heavily publicize a lot worse. The plot reminded me of a late-night cable non-erotic mob-type action movie. Murphy, a legendary-smuggler-turned-club-owner, won't sell his place to the big casino owner/mob boss so they blow up the club and try to kill him. This takes him, Dawson, and Quaid on a adventure through some of his old smuggler's haunts.
Of course, in most movies, the setting is the underbelly of a major city. Here's the setting is the underbelly of a major city crossed with the set of Total Recall and the New York New York casino in Las Vegas.
The big surprises to me where what other name actors showed up in the movie. Besides three mob guys being played by guys who played similar roles on The Sopranos, including Joey Pants, there was Jay Mohr as a night club entertainer, Luis Guzman as a smuggler, James Rebhorn (you might not know the name, but his face will be familiar) as the mob's second-in-command, Peter Boyle as a old crony of Murphy, Pam Grier as Murphy's mother, Illeana Douglas as a doctor at a body altering place, John Cleese as the computerized chauffeur of a flying car, and, in a (thanking his lucky ass) uncredited role, Alec Baldwin as a mob boss. You could also almost give Kevin Spacey a credit because Quaid looks like Kevin Spacey in his Dr. Evil make up from Austion Powers in Goldmember.
The special effects aren't quite cheesy, but they're not good either. The plot is standard. I give the movie a "wait til it's on cable" on the TH movie scale. Basicly, it's watchable but I wouldn't pay for it.
First of all, the movie wasn't that bad. Studios put out, screen, and heavily publicize a lot worse. The plot reminded me of a late-night cable non-erotic mob-type action movie. Murphy, a legendary-smuggler-turned-club-owner, won't sell his place to the big casino owner/mob boss so they blow up the club and try to kill him. This takes him, Dawson, and Quaid on a adventure through some of his old smuggler's haunts.
Of course, in most movies, the setting is the underbelly of a major city. Here's the setting is the underbelly of a major city crossed with the set of Total Recall and the New York New York casino in Las Vegas.
The big surprises to me where what other name actors showed up in the movie. Besides three mob guys being played by guys who played similar roles on The Sopranos, including Joey Pants, there was Jay Mohr as a night club entertainer, Luis Guzman as a smuggler, James Rebhorn (you might not know the name, but his face will be familiar) as the mob's second-in-command, Peter Boyle as a old crony of Murphy, Pam Grier as Murphy's mother, Illeana Douglas as a doctor at a body altering place, John Cleese as the computerized chauffeur of a flying car, and, in a (thanking his lucky ass) uncredited role, Alec Baldwin as a mob boss. You could also almost give Kevin Spacey a credit because Quaid looks like Kevin Spacey in his Dr. Evil make up from Austion Powers in Goldmember.
The special effects aren't quite cheesy, but they're not good either. The plot is standard. I give the movie a "wait til it's on cable" on the TH movie scale. Basicly, it's watchable but I wouldn't pay for it.
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