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...however, a bit disconcerting when other stars start coming out of the woodwork. Mark Wahlberg makes a memorable appearance as a security intelligence expert who refuses to put his shirt on. Ray Liotta plays a stereotypical mob boss by the name of Joe Miletto, Leighton Meester pops up as a scheming babysitter, and James Franco and Mila Kunis play the petty criminals for whom the Fosters are being mistaken. At times it’s a bit distracting, but each star makes a small but satisfying contribution to the movie...
...simply more obnoxious level than moviegoers may be expecting. “Observe and Report” follows shopping mall cop Ronnie Barnhardt (Rogen) as he embarks on a mission to catch a flasher who preys on unsuspecting women in the mall parking lot. When Detective Harrison (Ray Liotta) from the local police is called in to take over the case, Ronnie increases his efforts whilst trying to impress the cosmetics sales assistant, Brandi (Anna Faris from the “Scary Movie” series). Along the way, he must also find time to fall in love, kill...
...written some excellent characters and gotten his actors to give them quirky life: Michael Pena as a lisping dude who seems to be Ronnie's firmest supporter on the security detail; John and Matt Yuan as twin mall-cop layabouts; Ray Liotta as a police detective who sneers away Ronnie's ambition to join the force; and especially Celia Weston as Ronnie's mother, who loves her son and her booze with equal, pathetic intensity. Weston and Rogen's scenes together have the sad, sloppy sweetness of two losers who care for each other because they're stuck together. After...
...Rogen, in military short hair and a bulky frame that he's since slimmed down, adroitly navigates the course Hill has set for him: a high-strung bully until he's bullied (by the Liotta character) and becomes a figure of sympathy, someone we root for. About a half-hour into the movie, as you're settling in to the impression that Ronnie is rotten, Hill pulls out the disease card. Not to sound like Michael Savage, but these days every bad attitude is rationalized by being given its own disease. Ronnie, you see, is not a violent jerk...
...Revolver,” gambler Jake Green (Jason Statham) emerges from seven years in prison with the perfect winning strategy, learned in solitary from the two cell mates on either side of him. Green uses his method to quickly win mega-bucks from crime boss Dorothy Macha (Ray Liotta), who responds, not surprisingly, by ordering a hit on Green. Out of the shadows emerge “brothers” Zach and Avi (Vincent Pastore and André Benjamin, a.k.a. Andre 3000), who protect Green in exchange for help in their loan-sharking business. The two brothers quickly shake...