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ARRESTED. JOEY BUTTAFUOCO, 39, celebrity cad; for soliciting sex from an undercover cop; in Los Angeles. Buttafuoco could face six months in jail-plus more time in New York, where he is on probation for the statutory rape of gun-slinging teen Amy Fisher. Said tenaciously patient wife Mary Jo: "My husband is a very friendly...
...slowly realizes, he doesn't need or want a simulacrum of his old life back; what he requires is an energizing new deal from a fresh pack. Oddly (and luckily) enough, Carmela is coming to the same conclusion at the same time, propelled by the appearance of a cop (Chazz Palminteri) who starts responding to her wistful, if discreetly displayed, charms as well...
Still, the politically correct cliches at the heart of the piece are a crippling obstacle. They aren't even consistent. For if Mike, the much maligned cop (Michael Ness), is a repressed homosexual who finally realizes his true nature in the quake's aftermath, shouldn't that make him a Good Guy? Is David (Jesse Means II), the priapic minister, really a symbol of black male virility or a sexual predator? Is Dewain (Harold Perrineau Jr.), the gang leader who is arrested for stealing two bottles of beer, an avatar of resistance or merely a common thief...
Some movies ought to be reviewed not by critics but by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Watching Die Hard with a Vengeance, third in the series that pits New York City cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) against a wily, chatty nut case with a fondness for TNT, the viewer simply suspends belief and coolly appraises the things that go boom. Say, wasn't that a nicely staged Wall Street explosion? My, that runaway subway train crashed onto the platform with a certain vigorous verismo. Oh, look-more actors playing dead people! So little wit is expended...
Simon has decided to play some games with McClane, making the cop solve various riddles, with the penalty for failure being a large explosion in a public place. Eventually, Simon threatens to blow up an elementary school. Were this the entire plot, the movie would be a silly, predictable way to cover up a lack of ideas. Fortunately, like its forerunners, "Die Hard With a Vengeance" is full of surprises...