This movie was not a lot fun to watch, for two reasons.
Al Pacino plays a director who uses a CGI actress in his film. For some reason, he feels he has to cover it up and may never tell anyone. Why? Why must it be kept a secret? Why would he be seen as a bad director if his actress was a CGI even though everybody thought her performance was great? Why?
It's never answered in the movie. And it while I was watching this movie and
Pacino was getting deeper and deeper in trouble, I was just thinking "just come clean already, you wimp"...
Second, one of the most important things in comedy is timing. Even a bad joke can become funny when the timing is right. Great comics like John Cleese and
Rowan Atkinson are masters at timing. That's what makes them so great. In this film timing is out the window. Jokes are obvious from the beginning of the scene, yet the scene's themselves go and on. After a while you start to think that there may come a twist, like in SCREAM, but nothing... It's just the same old cliche all over again.
Even worse, characters in these scene's get atrociously bad written monologues and even a truly great actor like Al Pacino is falling flat on his face. Very painful indeed, and more embarrassing than funny.
In the end, this film bored me to death. I really can't remember any other movie that didn't bore me as much as this one. Not even Scary Movie 2.
Yes, that's right, I said Scary Movie 2.
Al Pacino plays a director who uses a CGI actress in his film. For some reason, he feels he has to cover it up and may never tell anyone. Why? Why must it be kept a secret? Why would he be seen as a bad director if his actress was a CGI even though everybody thought her performance was great? Why?
It's never answered in the movie. And it while I was watching this movie and
Pacino was getting deeper and deeper in trouble, I was just thinking "just come clean already, you wimp"...
Second, one of the most important things in comedy is timing. Even a bad joke can become funny when the timing is right. Great comics like John Cleese and
Rowan Atkinson are masters at timing. That's what makes them so great. In this film timing is out the window. Jokes are obvious from the beginning of the scene, yet the scene's themselves go and on. After a while you start to think that there may come a twist, like in SCREAM, but nothing... It's just the same old cliche all over again.
Even worse, characters in these scene's get atrociously bad written monologues and even a truly great actor like Al Pacino is falling flat on his face. Very painful indeed, and more embarrassing than funny.
In the end, this film bored me to death. I really can't remember any other movie that didn't bore me as much as this one. Not even Scary Movie 2.
Yes, that's right, I said Scary Movie 2.
