Dean reviews new movies from Chris Rock and Sandra Bullock
Premonition
Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahon
Rated PG-13
I’m going to start calling her Huey Lewis because no one goes “Back to the Future” as much as she does.
Following up her time travel romance, "The Lake House", now, she's tripping around in time again...trying to figure out what's going on with her, "here today, dead tomorrow"
She says the whole scenario is inconsistent? She must have had another premonition and read my mind. I’ll add on confusing and just plain boring.
The premonition that she thinks she's having in the movie is about her husband, played by “Nip-Tuck's” Julian Mc Mahon, who she's been told was killed in a car crash. She even went to his funeral. Only, whenever she wakes up from sleep, he seems to be still alive, living his life from days leading up to the car crash...she thinks. Maybe she's just going nuts. Maybe she can prevent his death. Maybe she'll let it happen since she discovers some dirty secrets about the “dead man walking.” Maybe this stab at a "what-if" thriller would have been better if it just made better sense.
If only I could go back in time to get those 2 hours back for this dull, Dean’s List, “D.”
I Think I Love My Wife
Chris Rock, Kerry Washington, Gina Torres, Steve Buscemi
Rated R for language and sexual content
You’d never know that this film came from the same mind as one of the greatest social commentators around today.
I can't figure out how one of the great geniuses of stand up comedy keeps coming up so short with his movie making?
There are a few laughs here, but not much else in this story of a married man from the suburbs who gets a little bored and antsy in his life and is tempted when a beautiful, flirty, friend from the past enters his life. Gina Torres is the wife...Kerry Washington the new girl. Steve Busemi is in the movie for a minute for no particular reason.
Adapted from a 1970's French film, Chris directs, writes and stars in this movie that doesn't say anything new about the relationship game or battle of the sexes.... but worse, says it, awkwardly, badly acted and then with an embarrassing musical number at the end of the film.
Chris Rock is one of my favorites but here, he seems like a fish out water here.
I think I would have loved my wife better if it were more like Chris’ stand up, instead of his attempt at a bad sitcom. Another Dean’s List “D.”