This was okay, but not great. Steve Martin is the eponymous Bowfinger, an Ed Wood for the nineties, who has one simple dream. That dream is for a Fed Ex van to drive up to his house and hand deliver to him a package inviting him to direct a major motion picture. But in order to be noticed by anyone he first has to direct one film which will showcase his talent to an audience. After seeing his advances to big Hollywood stars flatly rejected he hits upon the novel idea of filming one, Kit Ramsey (Murphy), without his knowledge and slotting the resultant footage into his latest 'blockbuster'.
This is basically the plot of the film and though it's pleasant enough to sit through it certainly didn't strike me as half as funny or clever as it clearly thought it was. It seemed a lot like a straight-to-video B-movie, albeit one with a top-notch cast. Indeed, without Eddie Murphy's superb turn as the intensely paranoid conspiracy theorist Ramsey the whole thing might just have sucked. In the end though it was just okay. |
