bodger
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Farrah's knocking on 52 in this movie and the soft focus length can't deny more nips and tucks in her boatrace than a cornish pastie.
The "gentle and pleasant" plot is torn apart by the fact that having been told her mum had up to six months to live, this lovable rogue like doll disappears and comes back six months to the day and is flummoxed when her mum had kicked the bucket three days previously!! We are supposed to sympahise with the dim witted dolly when her sister and brother in law to be want to sell their share of the property to try to make something of their lives. Given that Farrah has to appear the holly golightly that she ain't, they have to act with a perfomance not equalled for woodeness since pinnochio was last done. However, our dim witted dolly disagrees to the house sale and agrees to pack underwear at the local mill to make up her share of the 200 grand owing to buy them out!!! The subplot is that she is searching for her long lost dad who did a bunk years back and who can blame him and in a move resplendent of one of charlie's aunts..sorry angels, she drops notes in the gigantic drawers that she packs for your average 26 stone american lving in North Carolina....given that she only packed one on twenty pairs, she got extremely lucky when she got a reply from his ex missus!! Things then get worse or funnier, the foreman at the mill, looking every bit of the 15 years her junior he is, falls for her exclaiming he remembers going to her family farm at the age of 12 and being shy of her " you'd have been 14 at the time!!!" well I've heard of flattery gets you everywhere but thats taking the mickey, she'd have been forty at least...then comedy turns to farce when our hero loses his arm in the mill machinery ( reminded me of the "the mangle" ) and the following scenes are shot with his arm clearly either "hidden" up his back or consumed as a beer belly in his baggy shirt he begins wearing following the accident. Pure pantomime! Of course they raise the money with his compensation money paid in a fortnight and as he looks in to her puffed up 50 something eyes, he keeps a straight face when he declares he wants to marry her and for her to have his children, children in the plural as if medicine is miraculous or his compensation enough to reverse her menopause! Cruel comments maybe, but pure farce and a real laugh on a wet saturday, " silk dope!"
The "gentle and pleasant" plot is torn apart by the fact that having been told her mum had up to six months to live, this lovable rogue like doll disappears and comes back six months to the day and is flummoxed when her mum had kicked the bucket three days previously!! We are supposed to sympahise with the dim witted dolly when her sister and brother in law to be want to sell their share of the property to try to make something of their lives. Given that Farrah has to appear the holly golightly that she ain't, they have to act with a perfomance not equalled for woodeness since pinnochio was last done. However, our dim witted dolly disagrees to the house sale and agrees to pack underwear at the local mill to make up her share of the 200 grand owing to buy them out!!! The subplot is that she is searching for her long lost dad who did a bunk years back and who can blame him and in a move resplendent of one of charlie's aunts..sorry angels, she drops notes in the gigantic drawers that she packs for your average 26 stone american lving in North Carolina....given that she only packed one on twenty pairs, she got extremely lucky when she got a reply from his ex missus!! Things then get worse or funnier, the foreman at the mill, looking every bit of the 15 years her junior he is, falls for her exclaiming he remembers going to her family farm at the age of 12 and being shy of her " you'd have been 14 at the time!!!" well I've heard of flattery gets you everywhere but thats taking the mickey, she'd have been forty at least...then comedy turns to farce when our hero loses his arm in the mill machinery ( reminded me of the "the mangle" ) and the following scenes are shot with his arm clearly either "hidden" up his back or consumed as a beer belly in his baggy shirt he begins wearing following the accident. Pure pantomime! Of course they raise the money with his compensation money paid in a fortnight and as he looks in to her puffed up 50 something eyes, he keeps a straight face when he declares he wants to marry her and for her to have his children, children in the plural as if medicine is miraculous or his compensation enough to reverse her menopause! Cruel comments maybe, but pure farce and a real laugh on a wet saturday, " silk dope!"
no doubt about it..filmakers can produce brilliant pictures, direct them and all, but as always and underneath it( star-billing included ) one must judge a film by its story ( plot ) and the way in which its told ( screenplay/direction )....
Entrapement is up there with the former ie. great cinematography, actors, direction )but boy does it suffer from a pretty poor story and plot. So much of this messageboard igonores the fundamentals that is story and screenplay in spite of what is budget and usually impressive visuals. Entrapment given a few minutes reflection is a desperately poor film, played to its best by Ms Zeta Jones and Mr Connery ( did he ever act? )
Pretty ( Zeta Jones ) Average ( the rest )!
Entrapement is up there with the former ie. great cinematography, actors, direction )but boy does it suffer from a pretty poor story and plot. So much of this messageboard igonores the fundamentals that is story and screenplay in spite of what is budget and usually impressive visuals. Entrapment given a few minutes reflection is a desperately poor film, played to its best by Ms Zeta Jones and Mr Connery ( did he ever act? )
Pretty ( Zeta Jones ) Average ( the rest )!
Willis is ice cool as the Jackal, his heartbeat barely murmurs above a dozen beats per minute throughout this easy going nonsense. He cruises through a film that is averagely supported by Poitier and Gere, whilst dragged down by a ridiculous plot, particularly in the detail. Big screen names with a plot and script of made for tv mediocrity, OK or ideal to watch after an alcohol accompanied meal as it requires little effort to watch and a neccessity not to question any level of detail. If you get to the end without a snooze you'll be ready for bed!