GROSSE POINTE BLANK
A film review by Gerard Foley
Copyright 1997 Gerard Foley
John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Alan Arkin and Dan Aykroyd Directed by George Armitage Story by Tom Jankiewicz Screenplay by Tom Jankiewicz, D.V.DiVincentis, Steve Pink and John Cusack
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My memory must be getting worse, because I thought I recalled someone's review of "Grosse Pointe Blank" made the movie sound interesting. It's not. Seeing that the screeplay is credited to four people, it is easy to understand why a Hollywood committee would write a Hollywood movie.
A large number of cliches have been whipped out to fill the hour and a half or so going on to all day that this movie takes. The trailers tip you off to the premise: a professional killer goes to his high school reunion. (It seems a good year for high school reunions - see Lisa Kudrow of "Friends" is in another one opening soon).
I find myself depressed by the assumption that the U.S.Government is in the assassination business, and further depressed by the concept that automatic weapons hardly ever kill anyone, no matter how close the range or how many times they are fired. I was not struck by the attraction bwtween John Cusack and Minnie Driver, nor much impressed by the idea that Minnie spent 10 years mourning John's inexplicable and unexplained disappearance. It would have been ok with me if he had stayed away. The dialog, if that is the correct term for the lines spoken by the actors, is straight from the Hollywood book.
Gerry - gfoley@freenet.columbus.oh.us
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