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- "Under Suspicion"
(Reviewed August 30, 2000)
- In this play-like, mostly two-character drama, lawman Morgan Freeman spends nearly the entire movie interrogating suspect Gene Hackman about a pair of murders.
(Pointless aside: When Freeman and Hackman last worked together in "Unforgiven," their roles were reversed!) I liked this movie a lot...right up until the last five minutes, when I sat watching in
slack-jawed
disbelief as the film was sabotaged from within by a flat-out TERRIBLE ending. Honestly, I don't think I have seen a more awful ending to an otherwise enjoyable movie since "The Game." A flashing
light
should come on five minutes before the conclusion, along with the warning, "LEAVE THEATRE NOW! THIS MOVIE IS ABOUT TO BE RUINED! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!"
One real treat, though, is the impossibly beautiful actress Monica Bellucci, who plays Hackman's much-younger wife. My God, she is stunning. Big, pillowy lips...long, straight, jet-black
hair...a
bustline that will make your eyes pop out of your head and your tongue unroll onto the floor...excuse me, I feel faint. She even appears partially undressed for a (very) brief moment near the
beginning of the movie, when we see her from behind putting on an evening gown. One word: YUM.
Back Row Grade: C (but if it had ended five minutes sooner, it might have gotten an A!)
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