Mickey Blue Eyes
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Burt Young, Hugh Grant, James Caan, James Fox, Jeanne Tripplehorn Director: Kelly Makin Brand: Warner Brothers Cinematographer: Donald E. Thorin Editor: David Freeman Producer: Charles Mulvehill Producer: Elizabeth Hurley Producer: Karin Smith Writer: Adam Scheinman Writer: Robert Kuhn DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 102 minutes Published: 1999-12-01 DVD Release Date: 1999-12-28 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: Turner Home Ent |
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Movie Reviews of Mickey Blue Eyes
Movie Review: Can I get a refund?
Summary: 1 Stars
Beware, I will be giving away a few plot points.Somebody somewhere thought that Hugh Grant could be his impish self and make this fish-out-of-water work. It would have been better if the whole thing slept with the fishes.
This could be the worst script of 1999. Grant, an auctioneer at an art house, is about to become engaged to Jeanne Tipplehorne who's father James Cahn just happens to be a small-time figure in a mob-family. Cahn's associates get involved and somehow get Grant to launder mob money by auctioning off the truly awful paintings of the mob-boss' son to mob-boss associates who in turn never actually pay for them. Given the lengths the film goes to display Grant's goody-two-shoes nature, it's preposterous to begin with.
Well, things go a bit astray, thanks to the truly bizare plot point of Grant willing to commit another feloney (tipping off an auction participant when a painting has passed its actual value) and through an incredibly convoluted series of events, mob-boss' son dies. Nobody but Grant and Tipplehorne knows who the real killer is. And the hilarity/hijinks just rolls from here.
Tipplehorne is pretty much a throwaway character here and we're expected to beleive that she'll just disappear after mob-boss son's death. Caan sort of plays this as a cross between Sonny and Freddo Corleone. He has some of Sonny's power and violence and is as naive, if not necessarily as stupid as Freddo. Grant gives his usual (which is also becoming tiresome) nice guy in extrodinary circumstances performance.
If all this is confusing so far, the ending may have you looking at the screen with the expression of a dog hearing a high pitched sound. Are we to assume that all of Mob-bosses associates are going to ignore what they've just seen?