Not bad.
Not overwhelmingly wonderful, but not bad.
It is a funny movie. Josh Hartnett isn't exactly playing dumb in it. He's more idealistic than dumb and not annoyingly idealistic, either. One matter boggles my mind, though. How in the HELL does his character get away with his womanizing?! I bet most of the male population of the world would like that little secret revealed. He calls several women by wrong names during the course of the movie and one even says "Close enough," and pulls him in to a hot tub. Maybe it's just me, but I'd get a wee bit miffed...okay PISSED if a guy called me another woman's name. Whatever. I can go with it. He steals the show mainly because his character was more likeable that Harrison Ford's character. That's probably because I can relate to the younger role more easily than the older one.
Harrison Ford doesn't play his normal Indiana-Jones-type hero in this, so if that's what you're looking for, forget it. It's more of a regular-joe-trying-to-make-a-living role. Any other actor with the same history couldn't have pulled it off, but Harrison Ford is just that good. The character is cranky and acting more like he should be rocking on the porch yelling at the whippersnappers playing baskeball too close to his yard, but you sympathize with his struggle to make ends meet and making an idiot out of himself to do so.
The highlight of the entire movie is the interrogation of the two cops. The contrasts in the interrogators and the interrogated are just hilarious. |
