Tuesday, May 06, 2008

My Best Enemy

My Best Enemy (2005)
At a small holiday resort town, there was only one movie theatre. We chose to see this out of a list of four, including Horton Hears a Who, and other school holiday options. The nice thing was to be the youngest in the audience (there were only 11 people at the session that we went to). The worst thing was that the 17 year olds that were running the movie theatre that weekend, couldn't keep the movie in focus so I had to run up and down the stairs 5 times to ask them to go and check in the projection room and adjust the shot. My Italian isn't very good, so the subtitles were very necessary.

A romp about a young man who thinks that his mother has been fired unjustly, and he decides to destroy the evil bosses life. Of course things don't go as smoothly as planned.

It was a bit long, and although the two main characters were likeable, everyone else seemed to be a stereotype of the foxy mistress, the slighted wife, the hopeless mother and the lovesick daughter. Silliest of all was the forty year old rockstar boyfriend from London who had the oddest accent, and only appeared for about two minutes on screen.

Sorry Italian movie, I can only muster a 1/5 for you.

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