Review: Be Cool

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Saw it last night on my friend's mond RPTV home theater setup.
I really liked Get Shorty, it was a low key, dry comedy and the characters were just over the top enough to seeem like they're from a pulp novel, which they were. I was looking forward to Be Cool, the sequel to Get Shorty, but waited to see it on DVD after hearing some reviews.
I'm glad I didn't pay anything to see it, much less $9.
What a dismal movie and a waste of talent all around. Most scenes seemed thrown together, like the screenwriter said to himself, on the day of the shoot, "This character has to see this other character doing this. What is he doing? Oh, that sounds good." Scribble scribble.
Awful pacing, awkward and trite dialog, gratingly forced comedy, a plot that's complicated for the sake of being complicated (not clever or interesting.) For a movie about music, the songs are terrible, with the exception of a small clip of Sergio Mendes playing piano (he was really in the movie, which was sort of cool.)
Vince Vaughn's character is kind of funny to watch for a little bit. The Rock's character could have been hilarious if the part wasn't written so poorly. There's a quirky hitman who is sort of interesting for the five minutes he's on the screen, and the russian mob characters are interesting, but underdeveloped and not really threatening for being the bad guys. All in all, there are maybe ten minutes of interesting things to look at in a two hour long movie.
Special demerit points for painfully obvious and obtrusive product placements, and the waste of relatively good, or at least interesting, actors.
Rating: 25/100

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Topic - Review: Be Cool - jbmcb 09:41:38 06/24/05 (0)

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