I know that's a strange title to use for my review, but that's how I felt about the film. It was flawed in many ways, but interesting enough that I might want to scan it again. Maybe not watch it in its entirely, but scan parts of it.
One of the major flaws, for me, was the dialogue. All the characters spoke in the same way. If you closed your eyes, you would not be able to distinguish one female character from another., because there was no individuality in any of their manners of speech. Even the homeless woman and the young blind teen girl didn't really talk differently from the other female characters. That gave the characters less personality, which detracted from the overall feel of the film.
I felt the same way about the acting. I saw no real difference between any of the female characters. They were all the same, just in different circumstances. Again, I felt that made the movie less interesting.
I'm glad another reviewer mentioned the odd lighting in some of the scenes. In many scenes, both indoors and outdoors, the top part of the frame was darkened. Then the next scene would revert to normal lighting. I tried to find some reason for this, some message the director was trying to convey with that technique, but I found none. Maybe I missed whatever the reason for that was. But that lighting technique took my out of the movie, distracted me, as I was trying to figure out why it was that way.
The other reviewer said he saw the movie on a German DVD. Mine was the American release, and it was the same way. So I guess that was intentional on the part of the filmmakers, though I don't know why. I actually thought I may have gotten a defective disk, but reading that other review, it seems that lighting was purposeful.
And yes, I'm reviewing this movie 20 years after it was released! But I found a DVD of it, and decided to give it a try. It was one of those early annoying flipper disks, with a full-screen version of the film on one side, and a widescreen version on the other. Thankfully those disks are long gone, no long produced that way.
I will give a shout out to Cameron Diaz here. She actually showed some acting chops in this film. I'm more used to seeing her in the "Charlie's Angels" movies and "There's Something About Mary", where she is a stereotype, not really in parts that required any acting skills. But she was very good in this.
This movie is hard to find now, but if anyone gets a chance to watch it, they should. In spite of the flaws I mentioned, it is, as I said, oddly interesting.
One of the major flaws, for me, was the dialogue. All the characters spoke in the same way. If you closed your eyes, you would not be able to distinguish one female character from another., because there was no individuality in any of their manners of speech. Even the homeless woman and the young blind teen girl didn't really talk differently from the other female characters. That gave the characters less personality, which detracted from the overall feel of the film.
I felt the same way about the acting. I saw no real difference between any of the female characters. They were all the same, just in different circumstances. Again, I felt that made the movie less interesting.
I'm glad another reviewer mentioned the odd lighting in some of the scenes. In many scenes, both indoors and outdoors, the top part of the frame was darkened. Then the next scene would revert to normal lighting. I tried to find some reason for this, some message the director was trying to convey with that technique, but I found none. Maybe I missed whatever the reason for that was. But that lighting technique took my out of the movie, distracted me, as I was trying to figure out why it was that way.
The other reviewer said he saw the movie on a German DVD. Mine was the American release, and it was the same way. So I guess that was intentional on the part of the filmmakers, though I don't know why. I actually thought I may have gotten a defective disk, but reading that other review, it seems that lighting was purposeful.
And yes, I'm reviewing this movie 20 years after it was released! But I found a DVD of it, and decided to give it a try. It was one of those early annoying flipper disks, with a full-screen version of the film on one side, and a widescreen version on the other. Thankfully those disks are long gone, no long produced that way.
I will give a shout out to Cameron Diaz here. She actually showed some acting chops in this film. I'm more used to seeing her in the "Charlie's Angels" movies and "There's Something About Mary", where she is a stereotype, not really in parts that required any acting skills. But she was very good in this.
This movie is hard to find now, but if anyone gets a chance to watch it, they should. In spite of the flaws I mentioned, it is, as I said, oddly interesting.