Monday, March 13, 2006

Where the Truth Lies

Last night Panda and I rented Where the Truth Lies staring Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon. The basic story is that Colin and Kevin's character's (Vince and Lenny), an entertainment duo from the 50s – think Martin and Lewis, are on top until a the dead body of a girl is found soaking in their hotel suit's bathtub. Fifteen years later, the mystery is still unsolved, so a young journalist, obsessed with the duo since childhood, gets a book deal and sets out to solve the puzzle.

This movie was a complete and total let down. In the end, we found our selves bored by the uncovered truth. Not only was the movie a crescendo with no real climax, but we felt it was confused about where it was trying to go - making us confused and annoyed in the process. Several times during the movie, parallels were drawn between the young journalist and the woman who was killed in the fifties, but those parallels went nowhere, and in the end seemed pointless.

In the end, we just didn't care and wished we'd gotten Junebug instead.
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1 comment:

Scarlet Panda said...

Yep, the movie sucked. It was convoluted but not in the slightest bit clever. And the mystery was not solved in any interesting way--the journalist just magically figured it out. Stupid.

Also, what should have been the one bright spot--sexy, sexy Colin Firth--was marred by the presence of an idiotic mustache.

Disappointing!