This movie is like watching your favorite team lose the World Series and then finding out that they were paid by gamblers to lose on purpose! Chris Rock has been my hero ever since I saw him in the 1991 drug movie NEW JACK CITY. He was hardly more than a teenager at the time, with no acting training at all, and he played the most devastatingly real crack addict ever put on film. He did more acting in that one role, in that one film, than his "Breakfast Club" costar Judd Nelson did in his whole shabby career.
But of course, there are reasons why Chris Rock could never have the mainstream appeal that a scintillating talent like Judd Nelson had.
Now I had heard that this movie was Chris Rock's masterpiece. I heard it was incisive, outspoken, that he revealed all the entertainment industry's buried secrets and its shameful double standards.
Actually, no. In this movie, Chris Rock is not even trying. He walks around Manhattan with a pretty girl on his arm, making vaguely amusing remarks on random unimportant topics. And I kept watching and thinking, is this it? Is this all? "Did you know that Charlie Chaplin was a genius?" Yes, thank you. I already knew that.
Say it ain't so, Chris. Say it ain't so!
But of course, there are reasons why Chris Rock could never have the mainstream appeal that a scintillating talent like Judd Nelson had.
Now I had heard that this movie was Chris Rock's masterpiece. I heard it was incisive, outspoken, that he revealed all the entertainment industry's buried secrets and its shameful double standards.
Actually, no. In this movie, Chris Rock is not even trying. He walks around Manhattan with a pretty girl on his arm, making vaguely amusing remarks on random unimportant topics. And I kept watching and thinking, is this it? Is this all? "Did you know that Charlie Chaplin was a genius?" Yes, thank you. I already knew that.
Say it ain't so, Chris. Say it ain't so!