I bought this film when it came out on DVD -- despite all its negative reviews -- because of Robert De Niro's attachment to the project. That was my sole reason.
Let's be fair -- it's not the utterly disastrous movie the critics made it out to be. Is it bad? Yeah. Pretty bad. Awful? No. It's just a bit below-average; mediocre. If you honestly think this is the "worst" movie ever made, you probably haven't seen any episodes of "Mystery Science Theater 3000." However, that said, it's still a stinker. De Niro is in the movie about twenty minutes and shouldn't have even been used on the ads the way he was. It was obviously just to rake in more cash with suckers like me. De Niro is OK and doesn't "phone in" his performance as some critics were saying - he just doesn't look very enthralled at all and is less engaging than he usually is. He's nowhere near as bad as I expected him to be after reading all the reviews, though.
Kinnear and Stamos try their best but the movie just isn't up to par at all. Nick Hamm is a really worthless director and the DVD's ten gazillion "special" multiple endings are each more insulting than the last.
You know a movie is in trouble when it has separate endings -- this one has about twenty too many. Not worth watching unless you're a huge fan of the cast and have nothing better to do on a Friday or Saturday, but in that case I'd recommend something more worthwhile.
Let's be fair -- it's not the utterly disastrous movie the critics made it out to be. Is it bad? Yeah. Pretty bad. Awful? No. It's just a bit below-average; mediocre. If you honestly think this is the "worst" movie ever made, you probably haven't seen any episodes of "Mystery Science Theater 3000." However, that said, it's still a stinker. De Niro is in the movie about twenty minutes and shouldn't have even been used on the ads the way he was. It was obviously just to rake in more cash with suckers like me. De Niro is OK and doesn't "phone in" his performance as some critics were saying - he just doesn't look very enthralled at all and is less engaging than he usually is. He's nowhere near as bad as I expected him to be after reading all the reviews, though.
Kinnear and Stamos try their best but the movie just isn't up to par at all. Nick Hamm is a really worthless director and the DVD's ten gazillion "special" multiple endings are each more insulting than the last.
You know a movie is in trouble when it has separate endings -- this one has about twenty too many. Not worth watching unless you're a huge fan of the cast and have nothing better to do on a Friday or Saturday, but in that case I'd recommend something more worthwhile.