Review of Hexed

Hexed (1993)
3/10
Avoid.
27 December 2011
The box copy advertises a laugh riot, and this movie just isn't that. Sledge Hammer creator Alan Spencer would seem to be the man to put this baby together; he has a proved flair for absurd comedy and knows his way around action/crime comedy plots. Unfortunately, none of that experience translated into good movie-making here. The mistaken identity plot is nothing fresh, the gags are familiar and obvious and both Claudia Christian and Ayre Gross fail to reach the right level of manic energy or wackiness to properly drive this sort of exercise forward. The jokes fall flat and there are actually pauses in the timing to allow for laughs that don't materialize! Instead of laughing, I found myself critiquing the movie as it went along, just to give myself something to do. Christian just doesn't hit the right notes as a French supermodel/psycho - the accent is off, and the character lacks the right mix of high maintenance lifestyle habits and eccentricity to make the character either convincing or interesting. And Gross is just boring as a nebbish who gets a date with the woman of his dreams. The viewer doesn't root for him either to hit it off with his date or to escape when the cops mistake him for a killer. The movie looks decent enough and had potential in the development stage, but the material just isn't there and the main performances just aren't that interesting to watch.
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