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C |
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| Story: |
B |
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| Acting: |
B+ |
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| Direction: |
C |
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| Visuals: |
C |
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Dulplicity
by Jim B (movies profile)
Mar 19, 2009
15
of
24 people found this review helpful
Actors, no matter how good they have been or are in a film, if the editing, directing, and writers deceive them they will come across as lame hence the story wilts under those failures and the film as a project suffers.
Hopelessness, or despairing times make this film ripe for acceptance. The genre of romantic screwball comedies has been held in check for so long and now the time is right for this and the post production and writing sell short the fun these more than capable performers are able to deliver.
If you like Julia Roberts and Clive Owen you will definitely want to see this film. If you have in mind Carry Grant and Rosalind Russell you feel the same way I did when watching the closing credits.
The opening of Duplicity sells the film well but it never reaches that brilliance again. Tom Wilkinson and Paul Giamatti are shot in a slow motion like “cat fight” on an airport tarmac that kicks off the story clearly marking the boundary of arch rivals in the body lotion and body care business. Ms. Roberts and Mr. Owen once, one of the CIA the other MI6 well suited to espionage are hired to do some high intrigue infiltration to steal a companies secrets.
I’ll leave it there for those who are interested in taking in the film and care to wait to follow the story without knowing its conclusion, of which was sadly uninspired and fizzles out leaving the audience I was a part of, dissatisfied. |
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