Dec. 29, 2010
RUTHERFORD ON FILM: 'Tourist'
Jolie as an Experienced Spy Plays with Man Toy; Director states: This is a Comedy
By Tony Rutherford
Huntingtonnews.net Entertainment Editor
Huntington, WV (HNN) – Am I too soft on a general interest mainstream flick? Let’s lay the stars, filmmakers and concept on the table. Banking on Angelina Jollie and Johnny Deep, “The Tourist” has been receiving mostly so-so or mediocre responses. However, the viewers --- especially females --- have handed it , at least, a “B.”
Bland title true, but “The Tourist” spins and adapts trademark morsels from over the top entertaining film adult spy/caper franchises, such as the “Oceans 11,” “Mission Impossible,” James Bond and a gender reversal straight from a 70s comedy/adventure, “Foul Play.” Goldie Hawn played a naïve librarian caught into an assassination scene involving a midget , the pope and Chevy Chase’s analytic gumshoe.
“Tourist” reverses the gender roles, placing a broken hearted, ordinary mathematics professor (Johnny Deep) around the finger of a ravishing and ravenous possible double agent (Angelina Jolie). A “note” orders her to select a man on the same train for Venice as she who possesses superficial physical qualities for duty as a decoy.
The coy portions of the flick relate to romance and comedy; the intrigue responds aiming as a continual bulls eye. Here’s the pivotal issue --- I think the intrigue should have been the secondary theme and the comedic romance the main theme. Those critics or viewers have dissatisfaction would have found it fresh, not partially rotten.
Frankly (pun intended as Deep’s character has the name), the filmmakers weren’t comfortable with Jollie as the agent of expertise and Depp as the beard scratching foil. Which is why the director actually states in an interview --- this is a comedy.
Laughs, smiles, and belly laughs excluded, the viewer should have been able to clearly determine the intent. Instead, the story stays in a middle of the road state, unwilling to let go of the ‘possibility’ this is serious intrigue.
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RUTHERFORD ON FILM: 'Tourist'
Jolie as an Experienced Spy Plays with Man Toy; Director states: This is a Comedy
By Tony Rutherford
Huntingtonnews.net Entertainment Editor
Huntington, WV (HNN) – Am I too soft on a general interest mainstream flick? Let’s lay the stars, filmmakers and concept on the table. Banking on Angelina Jollie and Johnny Deep, “The Tourist” has been receiving mostly so-so or mediocre responses. However, the viewers --- especially females --- have handed it , at least, a “B.”
Bland title true, but “The Tourist” spins and adapts trademark morsels from over the top entertaining film adult spy/caper franchises, such as the “Oceans 11,” “Mission Impossible,” James Bond and a gender reversal straight from a 70s comedy/adventure, “Foul Play.” Goldie Hawn played a naïve librarian caught into an assassination scene involving a midget , the pope and Chevy Chase’s analytic gumshoe.
“Tourist” reverses the gender roles, placing a broken hearted, ordinary mathematics professor (Johnny Deep) around the finger of a ravishing and ravenous possible double agent (Angelina Jolie). A “note” orders her to select a man on the same train for Venice as she who possesses superficial physical qualities for duty as a decoy.
The coy portions of the flick relate to romance and comedy; the intrigue responds aiming as a continual bulls eye. Here’s the pivotal issue --- I think the intrigue should have been the secondary theme and the comedic romance the main theme. Those critics or viewers have dissatisfaction would have found it fresh, not partially rotten.
Frankly (pun intended as Deep’s character has the name), the filmmakers weren’t comfortable with Jollie as the agent of expertise and Depp as the beard scratching foil. Which is why the director actually states in an interview --- this is a comedy.
Laughs, smiles, and belly laughs excluded, the viewer should have been able to clearly determine the intent. Instead, the story stays in a middle of the road state, unwilling to let go of the ‘possibility’ this is serious intrigue.
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