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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by BaftaBaby[/i] [br]Come back Penn & Teller, all is forgiven! Well, actually there's nothing to forgive with P&T and oh how I wish this piece of glitzy-dreck film had even a whiff of their brilliance Now, here's something - back in 1994 a young-ish writer/director called Boaz Yakin made a film called Fresh - a blow-you-away simple, powerful insightful piece about a black kid from a nasty hood who becomes a chess champ. It had great characters and some very juicy ideas. I thought if there were any justice in LaLa Land, Boaz was on his way to a fine career. I kept looking out for his name. Yeah, there were some sporadic features, but let's face it, he never matched that Fresh promise. Now, up he pops, co-scripting with the mediocre Ed Solomon a blueprint for director Louis Leterrier to kick around as mindlessly as his previous air-fluff confections. Sigh! So, by now you all know the film - paced like some curved-road-hugging posh and gleaming car ad shot along the hairpin bend Riviera - catapults us into a world of show-biz magic in order to twist us into a far-from-legal money scam. There's something weird about it all, something that never quite rings true ... but, hey, that's what show-biz magic is, innit? A con, a scam - although, as we're bopped over the head with the distinction - if it's for entertainment, well, hey, that's all right, but if it ain't - woo-woo, big no-no. So, there's a robbery caper or three, triggering an international investigation spiced up by the presence of a cool blonde Interpol agent. Now, once upon a time I had the enormous privilege to research a drama series based at Interpol HQ in Lyons, so I can tell you with some authority that Interpol cops do not do street work. Oh, if that were the only lapse of logic in this tawdry tale. The acting's fine - but then again ... who the fuck ARE these people they're playing. Boaz! Get in here while I interrogate you! Penn & Teller! Get out your pen ... and tell 'er! [/quote]    -  HTML is OFF | Forum Code is ON   Check here to include your profile signature.