John Travolta, Morgan Freeman, Brendan Frasier, Ella Bleu Travolta, Famke Janssen, and Robert Patrick star in "The Poison Rose" from 2019.
It's not awful, but John Travolta, who has had higher ups and lower downs than nearly any actor in history, is again in a downward slope. Not that I can blame him - at the time the film was made, he had a sick wife who later died, and they had also lost a son.
In 1978, in Los Angeles, your typical gumshoe, Carson Phillips - drinker, smoker, gambler - agrees to return to his home town of Galveston to find out what is going on with an institutionalized woman, an heiress no one has heard from.
The town has nothing but bad memories for him - he walked out on the love of his life Jayne (Janssen). He also is a former football player who threw a game and had to leave town. However, it's a good time to split from LA - some people, probably loan sharks, are after him.
Carson runs into some strange things - and an even stranger doctor (Brendan Fraser with a new look) as he tries to see the heiress, Barbara. He also reconnects with the local mobster who runs Galveston (Freeman).
Jayne has a married daughter Becky (Ella Travolta) - her husband is a well-known football player who dies during a game. Becky comes under suspicion and Jayne begs for his help. Carson starts putting things together, and it looks to be an ugly outcome.
Travolta and Freeman are marvelous together, hard to believe they've never worked on the same film before. Travolta's gift, besides his charisma, is his knack for showing more than one level of a character, even a stereotypical one like Carson Philips or Danny Zucco. It's a shame he sometimes chooses such poor projects.
All of the acting is good. Ella Bleu gets high marks for her performance, and her heartfelt scenes with her real-life dad. Singer-actress Kat Graham who plays a club singer, Rose (but she's not the poison rose - in fact, I don't think there was one), is terrific. And Brendan Fraser is one smarmy, scary dude. Famke Janssen has had something done to her face, which was very distracting, but she's quite good.
The plot has holes in it and also unresolved situations. It's also slow. However, one poster commented that one thing Carson was working on was not resolved, concerning Becky - incorrect. It was resolved. Also, he uncovers some rotten doings at the institution. The point is, he isn't leaving, so it's assumed he can make more inroads.
I loved Travolta and Janssen dancing. Nice to see, Travolta hasn't forgotten his roots.
It's not awful, but John Travolta, who has had higher ups and lower downs than nearly any actor in history, is again in a downward slope. Not that I can blame him - at the time the film was made, he had a sick wife who later died, and they had also lost a son.
In 1978, in Los Angeles, your typical gumshoe, Carson Phillips - drinker, smoker, gambler - agrees to return to his home town of Galveston to find out what is going on with an institutionalized woman, an heiress no one has heard from.
The town has nothing but bad memories for him - he walked out on the love of his life Jayne (Janssen). He also is a former football player who threw a game and had to leave town. However, it's a good time to split from LA - some people, probably loan sharks, are after him.
Carson runs into some strange things - and an even stranger doctor (Brendan Fraser with a new look) as he tries to see the heiress, Barbara. He also reconnects with the local mobster who runs Galveston (Freeman).
Jayne has a married daughter Becky (Ella Travolta) - her husband is a well-known football player who dies during a game. Becky comes under suspicion and Jayne begs for his help. Carson starts putting things together, and it looks to be an ugly outcome.
Travolta and Freeman are marvelous together, hard to believe they've never worked on the same film before. Travolta's gift, besides his charisma, is his knack for showing more than one level of a character, even a stereotypical one like Carson Philips or Danny Zucco. It's a shame he sometimes chooses such poor projects.
All of the acting is good. Ella Bleu gets high marks for her performance, and her heartfelt scenes with her real-life dad. Singer-actress Kat Graham who plays a club singer, Rose (but she's not the poison rose - in fact, I don't think there was one), is terrific. And Brendan Fraser is one smarmy, scary dude. Famke Janssen has had something done to her face, which was very distracting, but she's quite good.
The plot has holes in it and also unresolved situations. It's also slow. However, one poster commented that one thing Carson was working on was not resolved, concerning Becky - incorrect. It was resolved. Also, he uncovers some rotten doings at the institution. The point is, he isn't leaving, so it's assumed he can make more inroads.
I loved Travolta and Janssen dancing. Nice to see, Travolta hasn't forgotten his roots.