Maw7391

Sometimes you take a look at a movie's director and leading actor and assume it is going to be a good movie and you are completely burned. Well, this was certainly one of them. DePalma directing and Cage starring, wow, this movie can't possibly go wrong can it? Ummmm, the answer is YES! It was pathetic. The worst part about it was the boxing scenes. Stan Shaw, the actor that the plays the boxer Lincolb Tyler was horribly miscast. This guy was like 50 years old and it showed in his physique and face. I know there are some boxers that look that way but none are that old and 99.9% of them don't ever make it to a big fight like the one Tyler was supposed to be in. The other boxer wasn't much better. They went way overboard with the trash talking during the fight. Real boxers may talk trash but not at that level and not with their hands down. The first time they do it with their hands down they would get drilled in the face. The boxer actually turned his back and raised his hands to the crowd while Tyler was still on his feet. That would never happen. It was painful to watch that entire scene. After that scene, the whole movie was viewed in a different way the rest of the movie. On a lighter note, but still disturbing, I was sick of looking at Nicolas Cage's protruding and unwieldy mane of chest hair!

I actually thought this might have been mildly funny and took a chance and rented it. What a waste. I thought "Not another Teen Movie" was funny in its own way and hoped this might be close to that. It could not have been further from it. It might have had 2 or 3 funny parts where I actually giggled or smirked but no out loud laughs like I thought. Why did the male love interest have an English accent? No mention as to where he was born, but if I remember correctly someone else from his family was in the movie and had no accent. I don't remember with 100% certainty because I wasn't paying attention closely because the movie absolutely sucked. The whole "pimp my ride" tie in to her makeover was a lame ass attempt to be creative and funny. Alls this movie did was make me realize that Allison Henigan is actually not bad looking when she is all "dummied up". I used to just visualize her as the band geek from American Pie. The sad thing is that the Director, producer, and everyone else must have thought "this is really funny, we've got a hilarious movie here".