My rating for this movie is the clearest 7 out of 10. It's just too good entertainment though it's just too bad. The first point is much stronger.
Surprising that John Larroquette can make a nice psycho. I won't bother discussing whether his character is believable or not. But you can laugh very much because of him. Not in the very first scene he appears, but in all the later. It only gets better. The situations are absolutely absurd, but you can't help enjoying them. (Why should you?)
Nor do I want to discuss the credibility of Kim Basinger's character. But she is just too wonderful, as she is always. When her character starts to fall out of line, she makes me feel a small and bizarre deal of joy, she can really make you laugh in some scenes and she also works out real emotion in some scenes - in a movie of this kind. Apparently there are people who think of her as a dumb blonde (!) whose job is nothing but being beautiful or something like that. I can't understand this, she's actually a real good actress. She doesn't play a complex or somewhat character here, but it's her who manages to make much fun of it. She's successful!
So everything in the movie works. The madness of the plot, the showdown-like action scenes in that big and crazy house, and that one thing with the brandy... don't ask me why it works. And Bruce Willis...well he's not bad... but he can't really be but Bruce Willis, that tough, blood-smeared guy in his muscle-shirt, can he?
No, actually I liked him more in "Mortal Thoughts", "Death Becomes Her" and "Nobody's Fool" than I did in this one.
Surprising that John Larroquette can make a nice psycho. I won't bother discussing whether his character is believable or not. But you can laugh very much because of him. Not in the very first scene he appears, but in all the later. It only gets better. The situations are absolutely absurd, but you can't help enjoying them. (Why should you?)
Nor do I want to discuss the credibility of Kim Basinger's character. But she is just too wonderful, as she is always. When her character starts to fall out of line, she makes me feel a small and bizarre deal of joy, she can really make you laugh in some scenes and she also works out real emotion in some scenes - in a movie of this kind. Apparently there are people who think of her as a dumb blonde (!) whose job is nothing but being beautiful or something like that. I can't understand this, she's actually a real good actress. She doesn't play a complex or somewhat character here, but it's her who manages to make much fun of it. She's successful!
So everything in the movie works. The madness of the plot, the showdown-like action scenes in that big and crazy house, and that one thing with the brandy... don't ask me why it works. And Bruce Willis...well he's not bad... but he can't really be but Bruce Willis, that tough, blood-smeared guy in his muscle-shirt, can he?
No, actually I liked him more in "Mortal Thoughts", "Death Becomes Her" and "Nobody's Fool" than I did in this one.