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Boobs. Some sword-fighting. The final song in the trailer (Tender by
Blur). Umm, did I mention boobs? Oh yeah, and Christopher Egan as the
priest/kinda priest was alright.
Where do I start? Hayden Christensen has to this point managed a pass
with me. I gave him a pass and blamed the failure of the Star Wars
sequels on George Lucas, not his wooden acting. He was great, SUPERB
even in Shattered Glass and Life as a House. So what happened? He's
terrible in this movie. And he was one of the reasons I wanted to watch
this. Him and Tim Roth.
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But for the love of God, he and
most every one else is pretty terrible in this film. Poor
Tim Roth is slumming his way through the paycheck. You can
see it in his eyes. No robber from Pulp Fiction, no Emil
Blonsky from Incredible Hulk, no Mr. Orange in this movie,
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And it's pretty sad. Really. Hayden is
bad. He gets to fondle a bunch of boobs and asses, which was probably
great for him with this role, and he didn't have to say much in the film
either (as for a time period, he was acting deaf and mute). Strange. So
very strange. And the less said about the bad VERY VERY bad accents he
and Mischa and most of the cast have to try and play around with
throughout this film, the better. In fact, the less said about Mischa,
the better.
So we move on. Probably better than Disaster Movie (okay, I'm sure I'd
think this was in the upper echelons of filmmaking if I had to watch
Disaster Movie), but it's pretty sad as it is. The bad acting, the
horribly sad accents, and the utter cock-tease of the movie just makes
it frustrating.
It can't decide what it wants to be. Something of a farce at times,
mocking sexual stereotypes and the sexual comedy romps/teen sex comedies
of the 90s and still going today, then being a movie about
sword-fighting, and then just being a straightforward softcore porn
without the porn and just the nudity, it's a frustrating movie watching
experience.
The best news: I saw this in one of those Redbox things to rent at like
Wal-Mart or McDonald's. Laughed at loud thinking some kid who really
liked the Star Wars movies getting his mom to rent this movie for him
and getting his first viewing of breasts for only a dollar at
McDonald's. Hilarious.
Just watch Cinemax after 11 on a Saturday and you'll probably get better
acting and better sex too. It's more worth your time to rent a movie
where Hayden acts and where Tim Roth acts (Shattered Glass for Hayden,
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead for Roth) and just steer clear.
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