This Film Is About a hot shot reporter named Rowena Price (Halle Berry). She's the best when it comes to finding the big story and breaking it wide open, usually at the expense of someone else's career. She loves digging up people's past and throwing it in their face, well after she throws it on the front page that is. The story begins when her and her tech teammate, Miles (Giovani Ribisi) loses a big story because their witness pulled out of his testimony. They need a new story and fast. Well they're in luck because an old friend comes knocking and gives Rowena the story of a life time, but not before she's murdered by the person that she was about to expose. Oh, by the way, this guy's played by Bruce Willis. His name isn't important like the rest of this movie.
You Should Watch this Because if you're really bored and having nothing better to do than watch Halle Berry make out with some random guy, no she doesn't make out with Bruce Willis. Okay, okay, you might think I'm just giving this movie a bad time and it's not really fair. Well, it's not fair how they enticed me with such an interesting story line and just didn't do anything else with it. Does that sound fair? Definitely not.
What's Hot: Halle Berry is always hot and there really isn't no way to get around that. But seriously, I think her hotness is going to her head. If she thinks she can go around wearing nothing and expect it to save the film then she has another thing coming. Sure I love watching her walk around in a dress that's way too tight, who doesn't? But the point is, she is the only thing that's hot in this movie. They needed to put Bruce Willis on an asteroid if they wanted to salvage this mess.
What's Not Hot: The rest of the movie is seriously lacking any sort of unique twist. Oh, don't get me wrong, there is a twist in the end but it's sooo clear what it is about a third into the film that it just becomes painful to watch after like 20 minutes. This is one of those detective movies where all we see is detecting. It might sound like I'm being a real bitch and a hater but seriously, any thriller movie that moves this slow deserves to get shot.
Breaking It Down:
Story: Fail
Direction: 6.0 (James Foley)
Acting: 5.8
Cinematography: 6.0
Music/Sound: Fail
Entertainment Value: Fail
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