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L'uomo in più (2001)
Quite disappointing
Having watched other films by Paolo Sorrentino, I was expecting the same refined film-making plus the usual original subject and convincing acting. While the last is certainly present in L'uomo in più (thank mostly to Toni Servillo), I found the whole plot quite disappointing and a rather standard cinematography. Additionally, a few characters are roughly sketched: they are presented during the plot but disappear a few scenes later. Add a general lack of rhythm and a banal intertwining between football and music, full of clichés (the bad manager surrounded by naked girls, the old football manager training youngster near the motorway, just to name a few) and you have a movie that is both too short and too slow at the same time. Watch the other titles by Sorrentino, they're by far better than this.
Chicken Park (1994)
Wasting money is something a must
I am Italian and remember having watched this "movie" on TV a year or two after its supposed release. I say "supposed", because - though it was filmed in 35mm - this movie never went into cinemas (if you have seen it, you can imagine why...) It is simply unwatchable, far beyond any reasonable z-movie style. Jerry Calà is a comic actor, who in his beginnings played in a rather experimental comic group (I gatti di vicolo Miracoli). After that, he collected a series of blockbusters repeating more and more his down-to-earth jokes (mainly based on puns associated with advertisement and idioms), together with other comic actors and the current Italian "playmates". With this film I think he tried to re-create such a mixture, but failed in improvising himself as a director...
Don't waste time: do not watch this movie.