David Nicholson Reviews

Blind Date (1987)

Poor script - redeeming factor - the 3 leading actors

[3/10 · 4 May 2001]

The story moved clumsily along from one idiotic situation to another none of which were really tied together by the end of the movie. Bruce Willis' character changed twice during the movie, but the changes were sudden, and the character never evolved. Kim Basinger's character was like a Dr. Jekyll and Miss Hyde which never really worked, and John Laroquette's character had a limited redundant vocabulary (I'll kill you), and a running gag of driving his car into buildings which really didn't work when you discovered in the latter part of the movie that he was a defense lawyer. These three actors made the movie tolerable, but it would have been much better if the writer and the director had never made the movie to begin with.

Carbon Copy (1981)

Well written and well done, but exaggerated stereotypes

[3 May 2001]

This was a great script and a good performance. It had a tendency to exaggerate stereotypes, but it did provide a humorous look at how people can be dominated and controlled by corporate power, and the will power and determination it takes to break that control.