What this movie is about? The story of a liar who lives a lying world, then finds truth finally? A lover man who's torn between 2 different women? The friendship of 3 guys? Actually, the movie itself doesn't know, otherwise it could've been more coherent, enjoyable and complete.
OK, it's a story of a man who sells everything until he himself becomes a merchandise to be sold. And as a romance, supposedly romance, the movie pushes this lead to learn about himself as lost person without real love in his life. BUT this movie so lousily sinks itself in a lot of details, un-comic characters, and many conversations before hitting the right nerve.
It was too late for (Halle Berry) to discover that she loves (Eddie Murphy) or that he loves her; it seemed a desperate attempt for making a third act more than being the movie's main core!
Not to mention, the matter of unattractive (Robin Givens) portraying a femme fatale. The dreadful presence of (Grace Jones) who got nothing to do with comedy. The dirty language, the dirty humor, then the sex and the nudity which aren't less dirty in my viewpoint (concerning this movie or else!). The long conversations scenes which with the tepid, nearly dead, direction so the truly dull pace--the whole thing looked close to pointless for most of the time. Many characters like; the mail-boy, the mad model, the French artistic director, the old-deceived neighbor, the friend's parents, or even the annoying employee of the clothes store.. all of them took more time on the screen than what the original story, any original story, did take or should've taken.
I pitied the charming and talented young (Berry). Although, she was a perfect princess of innocence, but this dull script, and those endless digressions, wasted her utterly. The movie didn't care of developing her as someone who would love the lead (she advised him how to seduce her boss by Jazz!), or give her space to appear right in the first place. I think that it should have been clear to her, so somehow us, how she got something for him from the very start, and how she had to take over the screen at least since the second half. Instead, they threw some real naive stuff to her; like the clueless first dialogue between her and (Murphy), and treated her like minor character, namely the heroine's sidekick, all along to suddenly remember her just before the end. Although the intense performance that she delivered at the scene of her emotional explosion was the best, most strong, anything of this movie, but still one of the worst movies that she was in!
After many hits in the field of action and comedy, why not (Eddie Murphy) takes on romance. It was a bold attempt. Yes, he's a good actor along with being big star, but the movie wasn't that good (the word is: broken up). I think it got something to do with (Murphy) himself as the story's writer, and maybe his fear that the movie could be just romance without comedy, to end up as jammed comedy with no real laughs that belated the romance if not suffocated it. I loved few of his moments here; on their top of course is the shot in which he finds the money for his "fatigue" besides the bed from his female version who's now treating him like a prostitute, notice how (Murphy) - silently - pulls the sheets on his chest, sad with weak feminine look in his eyes. With wicked little reactions like these, (Murphy) proves that he's one of few comedians who can make comedy brilliantly with or without talking.
Anyhow, it seemed like many incomplete movies in one, or boring stray comedy. I know that it could have been nice romantic comedy but what I've watched was an ideal example for underdeveloped one, or a movie with dysfunctional personality. I read opinions about (Boomerang) as "smart movie".. please, it's anything but smart!
P. S: At one scene, when the lead was being dumped, we see the lights go off at the top of one skyscraper. At later scene, when the lead hugs his friends, we see the lights go on at the same skyscraper??.. Naaa.. Don't bother, it's part of this movie's naivety!
OK, it's a story of a man who sells everything until he himself becomes a merchandise to be sold. And as a romance, supposedly romance, the movie pushes this lead to learn about himself as lost person without real love in his life. BUT this movie so lousily sinks itself in a lot of details, un-comic characters, and many conversations before hitting the right nerve.
It was too late for (Halle Berry) to discover that she loves (Eddie Murphy) or that he loves her; it seemed a desperate attempt for making a third act more than being the movie's main core!
Not to mention, the matter of unattractive (Robin Givens) portraying a femme fatale. The dreadful presence of (Grace Jones) who got nothing to do with comedy. The dirty language, the dirty humor, then the sex and the nudity which aren't less dirty in my viewpoint (concerning this movie or else!). The long conversations scenes which with the tepid, nearly dead, direction so the truly dull pace--the whole thing looked close to pointless for most of the time. Many characters like; the mail-boy, the mad model, the French artistic director, the old-deceived neighbor, the friend's parents, or even the annoying employee of the clothes store.. all of them took more time on the screen than what the original story, any original story, did take or should've taken.
I pitied the charming and talented young (Berry). Although, she was a perfect princess of innocence, but this dull script, and those endless digressions, wasted her utterly. The movie didn't care of developing her as someone who would love the lead (she advised him how to seduce her boss by Jazz!), or give her space to appear right in the first place. I think that it should have been clear to her, so somehow us, how she got something for him from the very start, and how she had to take over the screen at least since the second half. Instead, they threw some real naive stuff to her; like the clueless first dialogue between her and (Murphy), and treated her like minor character, namely the heroine's sidekick, all along to suddenly remember her just before the end. Although the intense performance that she delivered at the scene of her emotional explosion was the best, most strong, anything of this movie, but still one of the worst movies that she was in!
After many hits in the field of action and comedy, why not (Eddie Murphy) takes on romance. It was a bold attempt. Yes, he's a good actor along with being big star, but the movie wasn't that good (the word is: broken up). I think it got something to do with (Murphy) himself as the story's writer, and maybe his fear that the movie could be just romance without comedy, to end up as jammed comedy with no real laughs that belated the romance if not suffocated it. I loved few of his moments here; on their top of course is the shot in which he finds the money for his "fatigue" besides the bed from his female version who's now treating him like a prostitute, notice how (Murphy) - silently - pulls the sheets on his chest, sad with weak feminine look in his eyes. With wicked little reactions like these, (Murphy) proves that he's one of few comedians who can make comedy brilliantly with or without talking.
Anyhow, it seemed like many incomplete movies in one, or boring stray comedy. I know that it could have been nice romantic comedy but what I've watched was an ideal example for underdeveloped one, or a movie with dysfunctional personality. I read opinions about (Boomerang) as "smart movie".. please, it's anything but smart!
P. S: At one scene, when the lead was being dumped, we see the lights go off at the top of one skyscraper. At later scene, when the lead hugs his friends, we see the lights go on at the same skyscraper??.. Naaa.. Don't bother, it's part of this movie's naivety!