Word: foxx
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...must be said, however, that Mann the writer is perhaps a little too taken with detail. Basically, his undercover-cop duo (Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell) are pretending to be high-level, freelance drug smugglers making a deal with a Hispanic cartel that does not think small, and in the first part of his film Mann dawdles them through a labyrinth that's not conventionally menacing. Foxx and Farrell don't have a lot to do in those passages, which permits us to spend plenty of time with Li, who plays the criminal gang's enigmatic financial whiz, and that...
...Even those who couldn't see the Dreamgirls excerpts shared the excitement. As we approached the hotel with Roger and Chaz Ebert, we heard the enthusiastic screams of hundreds of onlookers, as Beyoncé Knowles and Jamie Foxx, two of the film's stars, strode down a carpeted sidewalk. Besides Foxx and Beyoncé, most of the principal cast lent their luster to the evening. Anika Noni Rose, a 2004 Tony winner for Caroline, or Change, was brought up on stage, as were Jennifer Hudson from American Idol and star-of-the-future Keith Robinson (who got his chance when...
...second scene, Effie is told she's no longer the group's lead singer; her resentment is momentarily soothed by the others' singing that they're all one "Family." Then Beyoncé gets the star treatment - a photo montage worthy of Audrey Hepburn's in Funny Face - and Foxx sings the love ballad "When I First Saw You." Finally comes the title number, put over in sensational style and with de luxe production values...
...talks one moment, sings the next. (The last film musical of this kind to be a hit? Condon has the depressing answer: Grease, nearly 30 years ago.) But the director - who also was screenwriter for that other hit movie musical anomaly Chicago - is counting on the marquee appeal of Foxx, Knowles and Murphy to bring audiences into the multiplex. After that, he has to trust his own craft and instincts to entertain them artfully and get a return on the $73 million budget...
Starring: Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx. Release date: July 28. How long the show...