This is the clearly failed attempt to recreate two of Michael J. Fox's earlier successes, "Bright Lights, Big City" and "The Secret Of My Succe$s". I don't know whose bright idea it was to cast the main character as a hotel concierge but I hope he or she'll never get to work in this town (Hollywood, I mean) again. No one knows what a concierge is, no one cares even if they do, and it is just plain impossible to create an interesting story around one (I actually watched this movie solely to find out how they would do it, but as it turns out -- they didn't). The next problem is that the female lead is a gold digging bimbo, so it is kinda difficult to imagine how anyone would develop romantic feelings for her, let alone fancy her as the girl he wants to spend the rest of his life with. And again, the movie expects the audience to swallow it wholesale: great love affair between sycophantic hotel employee and microskirted bozo, I command you to get your handkerchiefs out NOW!
Do you want me to go on? OK, there is an evil English business man who makes Gordon Gekko out of Wall Street look like a swell kinda fella by comparison, and the big revelation at the end of the movie is that he is an evil businessman. Argh! I'll stop here, the movie is a mess and not even worth watching drunk and late at night on television as I did. The only interest it held for me was that it was directed by Barry Sonnenfeld who went on to direct two of my favourite movies, Addams Family Values and Men In Black. I bet you my last shirt that he wants to forget this lemon as much as I do.
Do you want me to go on? OK, there is an evil English business man who makes Gordon Gekko out of Wall Street look like a swell kinda fella by comparison, and the big revelation at the end of the movie is that he is an evil businessman. Argh! I'll stop here, the movie is a mess and not even worth watching drunk and late at night on television as I did. The only interest it held for me was that it was directed by Barry Sonnenfeld who went on to direct two of my favourite movies, Addams Family Values and Men In Black. I bet you my last shirt that he wants to forget this lemon as much as I do.