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One Hour Photo
(Reviewed July 15, 2002)
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Not-so-hot stalker-thriller that goes through the motions but never really sneaks up on you, grabs you by the throat and slowly starts to squeeze. If you know what I mean.
Maybe it's me, but I never have liked Robin Williams. Never. Not ever. His bad-guy hat-trick this year of playing creeps in the egregiously unwatchable "Death to Smoochie," the ridiculously overrated "Insomnia" and this movie smack of a desperate attempt at remaking his sickeningly sentimental image. Yet even though he always has seemed to have a bit of the psycho bastard underlying his manic, annoyingly unfunny cheer, he is not a good enough actor even to play crazy convincingly.
"One Hour Photo"'s supporting cast has its moments, and the movie has a nice, sterile look to it. Also, it may be the first film to feature actors with laughably contemporary haircuts--you know, those horrible Jimmy Fallon/Tina Fey hairdos that appear to be the result of horrible hedge-shears mishaps. Seriously, do people with those crazy coifs ever look in mirrors? Every time I see someone with one of those beyond-bed-head, screwed-up styles, I'm reminded of the scene in the first "Batman" movie where news anchors have stopped using cosmetics and haircare products because the Joker has put poison in them--so everybody ends up looking like a disheveled mess. Crikey, it's even spread to "Entertainment Tonight!"
But I digress.
Back Row Grade: D
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