Recap: Famous and popular comic duo of Lanny and Vince splits up after a national telethon - after which a young girl is mysteriously found dead in their hotel suite. Now, 15 years later, a young journalist out to prove herself get the job to meet her childhood idols and hopefully uncover the truth about what really happened.
Comments: This is good mystery carried mostly by the strong play of the three main stars, Bacon, Firth and Lohman. The mystery is quite easy to solve, especially to guess the villain. But it's the why and how that is intriguing to follow and find out why. And it's there that the strong play of the actors really pull the movie together. Don't get me wrong, because even if the villain is easy to guess, the story is good. It leaves small pieces of details and clues here and there, changing quickly between the retrospective telling and the present relationship of Karen, Lanny and Vince. But without the acting that is there, the story, the characters and what happens between them would have been so much less interesting. Now, it actually feels like it matters, and what more can a fictional movie want? Although it is mostly a crime and mystery movie, there is a comic element in there as well, mostly in the first half of the movie. Bacon and Firth really works well as the comic duo and some of the dialog really tugged at my lips.
Overall, I was very happy to have seen this movie, and I can recommend it. Even if it isn't one of my personal favourites.
7/10
Comments: This is good mystery carried mostly by the strong play of the three main stars, Bacon, Firth and Lohman. The mystery is quite easy to solve, especially to guess the villain. But it's the why and how that is intriguing to follow and find out why. And it's there that the strong play of the actors really pull the movie together. Don't get me wrong, because even if the villain is easy to guess, the story is good. It leaves small pieces of details and clues here and there, changing quickly between the retrospective telling and the present relationship of Karen, Lanny and Vince. But without the acting that is there, the story, the characters and what happens between them would have been so much less interesting. Now, it actually feels like it matters, and what more can a fictional movie want? Although it is mostly a crime and mystery movie, there is a comic element in there as well, mostly in the first half of the movie. Bacon and Firth really works well as the comic duo and some of the dialog really tugged at my lips.
Overall, I was very happy to have seen this movie, and I can recommend it. Even if it isn't one of my personal favourites.
7/10