Why did it have to be snakes?" Nice Spielbergian touch to give his heroic adventurer Indiana Jones these little human fears and foibles.
The attempts to retrieve Quaid are obstructed by some comic-book villains, but it's a movie in need of a thrills-and-laughs transfusion. Filmed on location in Turkey and Greece, it's a real gem.Ī slapstick reworking of Fantastic Voyage with marine Dennis Quaid miniaturised and accidentally injected into hypochondriac Martin Short. Melina Mercouri (Dassin's wife) and her lover Maximilian Schell hire the traditional gang of expert crooks to steal a priceless dagger from an Istanbul museum Monja Danischewsky's script is full of sparkling wit and - during the Rififi-style, wordless heist - aching tension.
It's a brilliant Jekyll-and-Hyde act.ĭassin reruns his classic crime caper Rififi as a highly comic spoof. Carrey is ever-so-nice Rhode Island motorbike cop Charlie who has to compete with his own schizophrenic alter ego, hateful Hank, for the love of Renèe Zellweger's sweet Irene. Jim Carrey is reunited with the Farrelly brothers in this typically tasteless but warm-hearted excursion into mental illness. This is a riveting, complex, multi-layered production from a real master.
Among the English toffs and exotic American film-people gathered at the home of Sir William (Michael Gambon) and Lady Sylvia (Kristin Scott Thomas) are Charles Dance's Lord Stockbridge, Maggie Smith's Lady Constance, and Jeremy Northam's Ivor Novello, while the servants are ruled by Alan Bates's bullying butler and Helen Mirren's housekeeper. But whodunnit, and why, are not that important, because Altman is more interested in the gallery of characters above and below stairs. Murder in a stately country pile in England, circa 1932: the setting is pure Agatha Christie.
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