Exception being, Edward Norton (Keep the Faith was a very, very good movie).
This film made me cringe at points for being so egotistical. Start from the improbable beginning: a little, bespectacled girl hitting two guys. Improbable, but passable. Cut to the next scene, the same spectacles on Sandra Bullock. Oh, she is conducting a raid! How original! We just got to watch the SAME scene a couple of months ago in "Hannibal". So we know what will happen: she makes a mistake, she gets beaten for it, and (but of course) she gets a new assignment so that she can clear her name.
Stop me if I am wrong here, but this is one of the longest chain of clichés in any movie. "Big momma's house", "Hannibal", "Pygmalion", "My Fair Lady", you name it, it's here.
It shows who the "Producer" was. She never stops hogging the screen, either eating tons of ice cream (who thought that was funny), or smiling, or insulting anyone. Someone should tell Ms. Bullock that it takes a special someone to be funny and gross at the same time (think Eddie Murphy), and she is definitely not that kind of person. Her jokes are boring, her acting is only so-so, and she never stops being "the nice one, the intelligent one, the good one". What a bore.
Furthermore, the film lacks coherence and credibility. We are supposed to be watching a "serious" comedy, yet when she is having her make-up applied, a megaphone blurts out: "make up, podiatrist, dermatologist, aisle 25, urgent", as if in a real hangar. So dumb. I agree, there are times we should check our brains at the door and just forget all about coherence, but that is usually in "stupid" comedies, as "Dumb and dumber". This film is pretentious AND dumb at the same time.
Not to mention the fact that sweet Sandra Bullock transforms "magically" from being a brat to a beauty queen without the audience understanding what went into it. We only see her assistant, Vic (very funny performance, BTW) having trouble with her.
Oh, and I won't mention the fact that this should be an insult to any feminist. It really is degrading to women, considering the fact that it shows beauty contests as having something to do with intelligence. Isn't this the 21st century?
Overall, 6. Only because the supporting cast did make me laugh (at times).
This film made me cringe at points for being so egotistical. Start from the improbable beginning: a little, bespectacled girl hitting two guys. Improbable, but passable. Cut to the next scene, the same spectacles on Sandra Bullock. Oh, she is conducting a raid! How original! We just got to watch the SAME scene a couple of months ago in "Hannibal". So we know what will happen: she makes a mistake, she gets beaten for it, and (but of course) she gets a new assignment so that she can clear her name.
Stop me if I am wrong here, but this is one of the longest chain of clichés in any movie. "Big momma's house", "Hannibal", "Pygmalion", "My Fair Lady", you name it, it's here.
It shows who the "Producer" was. She never stops hogging the screen, either eating tons of ice cream (who thought that was funny), or smiling, or insulting anyone. Someone should tell Ms. Bullock that it takes a special someone to be funny and gross at the same time (think Eddie Murphy), and she is definitely not that kind of person. Her jokes are boring, her acting is only so-so, and she never stops being "the nice one, the intelligent one, the good one". What a bore.
Furthermore, the film lacks coherence and credibility. We are supposed to be watching a "serious" comedy, yet when she is having her make-up applied, a megaphone blurts out: "make up, podiatrist, dermatologist, aisle 25, urgent", as if in a real hangar. So dumb. I agree, there are times we should check our brains at the door and just forget all about coherence, but that is usually in "stupid" comedies, as "Dumb and dumber". This film is pretentious AND dumb at the same time.
Not to mention the fact that sweet Sandra Bullock transforms "magically" from being a brat to a beauty queen without the audience understanding what went into it. We only see her assistant, Vic (very funny performance, BTW) having trouble with her.
Oh, and I won't mention the fact that this should be an insult to any feminist. It really is degrading to women, considering the fact that it shows beauty contests as having something to do with intelligence. Isn't this the 21st century?
Overall, 6. Only because the supporting cast did make me laugh (at times).