With having enjoyed watching the Santa Cluse Movie with my family for quite a few Christmases,and having also heard lots about his "troubled" double act,with the great Peter Cook,I,was keen on seeing things that Dudley Moore had made.When I heard on some sites that this film had been used as the "insperation" for a Bollywood film that a friend of mine enjoys and,that Moore also stars in the film.I felt that due to this,that it was worth picking up the film.
The plot:
Three very different men (one is an estate buyer,the others a hit-man,and the last one is a cheating husband!),with very similar sounding last names each book themselves into the same Venice hotel.The only problem for all three of them is that the bellboy cant remember whose name is whose.So when some gangsters come to the hotel wanting to kill the hit-man,the estate buyer-and the cheating husband are both mistaken for him..
View on the film:
One of the things that surprised me about what writer/director Mark Herman did with the film,was to not turn it into a Zucker-style comedy,but to actually make the story pretty solid,and to keep the film at a very lean 75 minute running time (though the ending is similar to Its a Mad,Mad,Mad,Mad World-that Zucker would later remake into Rat Race.).
With the cast,I feel that all three leading men gave good performances,and were each given some strong set-pieces for each of them to shine in (Moore getting tortured!,the surprising hit-man romance,and Richard Griffiths mistaking a mansion seller,for a prostitute.)
Final view on the film:
An entertaining short-and-sweet comedy,with an enjoyable screenplay and good performances from the three leads.
The plot:
Three very different men (one is an estate buyer,the others a hit-man,and the last one is a cheating husband!),with very similar sounding last names each book themselves into the same Venice hotel.The only problem for all three of them is that the bellboy cant remember whose name is whose.So when some gangsters come to the hotel wanting to kill the hit-man,the estate buyer-and the cheating husband are both mistaken for him..
View on the film:
One of the things that surprised me about what writer/director Mark Herman did with the film,was to not turn it into a Zucker-style comedy,but to actually make the story pretty solid,and to keep the film at a very lean 75 minute running time (though the ending is similar to Its a Mad,Mad,Mad,Mad World-that Zucker would later remake into Rat Race.).
With the cast,I feel that all three leading men gave good performances,and were each given some strong set-pieces for each of them to shine in (Moore getting tortured!,the surprising hit-man romance,and Richard Griffiths mistaking a mansion seller,for a prostitute.)
Final view on the film:
An entertaining short-and-sweet comedy,with an enjoyable screenplay and good performances from the three leads.