Word: romanticized
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This disappointingly mediocre film is the follow-up to last year's brilliant Trainspotting; though it sports the same director, writer, producer and star, the similarities end there. The ill-paced narrative tells the story of Robert (Ewan McGregor), a recently-fired janitor who unwittingly kidnaps the beautiful daugher (Cameron...
O.K., you say, at heart it's a romantic comedy, It Happened One Night with an edge. Not so fast. You haven't taken the angels into account. They're ferociously played by diminutive Holly Hunter and massive Delroy Lindo, and Gabriel (Dan Hedaya) has sent them back to Earth...
He and Hodge also have nice taste in dream sequences. There's nothing here that quite equals McGregor's dive down the toilet in Trainspotting, but there's a dance number, to the antique strains of Beyond the Sea, that begins in a karaoke bar and ends in a romantic...
Phenomenon recaptures the formula that has made him so durable--a sharp, effervescent mixture of bouncing party anthems, street-corner bravado, bawdy tale telling and, not least, smooth romantic ballads. Rap, often misogynistic, generally has little use for romance, but LL found a way to make it work, and it...
A disappointingly mediocre follow-up by the makers of last year's brilliant Trainspotting. The illpaced narrative tells the story of Robert (Ewan McGregor), a recently-fired janitor who unwittingly kidnaps the beautiful daughter (Cameron Diaz) of his rich ex-boss. Screenwriter John Hodge attempts to freshen things up by...