Recap: It's time for the premiere of diva Honey Whitlock's latest movie. But the cinema has been infiltrated by an underground film crew with the aim to kidnap her for the lead in their new film. Cecil B Demented is the director and leader of the group, and his hate for mainstream cinema is extreme. His movie is also a terrorist movement that strikes the film industry and Honey suddenly finds her in the middle of it.
Comments: A very odd idea that has been converted to a rather funny movie. The characters are well written, but there are almost too many of them. The story is a bit absurd and quite extreme but rather harmless and mostly funny. It is an simply a very odd comedy. Unfortunately the idea that feels fresh and new in the beginning of the movie wears thin pretty quickly. Halfway in the odd and absurd has become so familiar and the story feels almost pointless. The ambition and focus that were there in the beginning is lost somewhere and the movie loses its edge.
Good cast though. Both Maggie Gyllenhaal, as a cute and sweet Satanist, and Adran Grenier, as a drug addicted actor, appears in early roles but the movie's best performance is from Stephen Dorff as the extreme and violent director Cecil B Demented. Never really liked Melanie Griffith much but her appearance is good too.
A fresh wind, this movie seemed to be. But it didn't really carry through. Too bad.
6/10
Comments: A very odd idea that has been converted to a rather funny movie. The characters are well written, but there are almost too many of them. The story is a bit absurd and quite extreme but rather harmless and mostly funny. It is an simply a very odd comedy. Unfortunately the idea that feels fresh and new in the beginning of the movie wears thin pretty quickly. Halfway in the odd and absurd has become so familiar and the story feels almost pointless. The ambition and focus that were there in the beginning is lost somewhere and the movie loses its edge.
Good cast though. Both Maggie Gyllenhaal, as a cute and sweet Satanist, and Adran Grenier, as a drug addicted actor, appears in early roles but the movie's best performance is from Stephen Dorff as the extreme and violent director Cecil B Demented. Never really liked Melanie Griffith much but her appearance is good too.
A fresh wind, this movie seemed to be. But it didn't really carry through. Too bad.
6/10