"Sister Act" was a huge success when it came out. Harvey Keitel was at the top of his game in '92 - "Reservoir Dogs," "Bad Lieutenant" and this had sparked his career up and Whoopi Goldberg was a couple years off her Academy Award-winning performance in "Ghost." So, I guess their names attracted the moviegoers. However the premise really is dull and has been used way too much -- a person on the run hides with the church. This happened a few years earlier in "We're No Angels" and again in "Nuns on the Run." "Sister Act" features Goldberg in the hapless role of the woman whose boyfriend (Keitel) tries to kill her because he's in the Mafia and what not.
I found this quite boring and I already knew literally everything that was going to happen because it was so utterly clichéd and routine. Goldberg is OK but not as funny as she or the director thinks and Keitel is on cruise control.
"Sister Act" might have made a fuss in '92 but by today's standards (and, I suspect, even back then) it's a waste of space. The fact that they immediately cashed in with a sequel only one year later is worse than most of the sequel syndromes Hollywood is suffering from today -- at least "xXx2" came out more than one year after the original!
I found this quite boring and I already knew literally everything that was going to happen because it was so utterly clichéd and routine. Goldberg is OK but not as funny as she or the director thinks and Keitel is on cruise control.
"Sister Act" might have made a fuss in '92 but by today's standards (and, I suspect, even back then) it's a waste of space. The fact that they immediately cashed in with a sequel only one year later is worse than most of the sequel syndromes Hollywood is suffering from today -- at least "xXx2" came out more than one year after the original!