UNDERCOVER BLUES
A film review by Steve Rhodes
Copyright 1996 Steve Rhodes
RATING (0 TO ****): 1/2
[This is one of my golden oldies reviews - written years
ago when I was just getting started and never posted.
I stand by the conclusions, but in most cases many details
are missing that I would normally include today.]
For timing reasons having to do with baby sitters, we recently went to a multiplex and saw UNDERCOVER BLUES.
I would give it one half of a star for guts. Anyone in a movie this bad would have to have guts. I later read a NY Times review that said Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid had gotten so plump they looked like they had the mumps in the show.
The script was the worst part. They had characters who talked with funny accents in an attempt to make you laugh. They had lots of "great" sight gags like two people trying to go in a door together and therefore bumping shoulders against the door.
Turner and Quaid both kept smiling like some idiots on a game show. The good news is that we were smart enough to vote with our feet and left. Buy some tickets and give them to your worst enemies. Tell them the show is great and smile a lot.
**** = One of the top few films of this or any year. A must see film. *** = Excellent show. Look for it. ** = Average movie. Kind of enjoyable. * = Poor show. Don't waste your money. 0 = One of the worst films of this or any year. Totally unbearable.
REVIEW WRITTEN ON: September 29, 1993
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