#A life less ordinary movie movie#
There’s a fearlessness that goes into the creation of a movie as unhinged as A Life Less Ordinary, the fearlessness of audacious small filmmakers who’ve just had a worldwide hit. Sitting through this fractious mess, this pileup of spectacular flakiness, you may be possessed by an overwhelming question: How can a movie this bad have been created by director Danny Boyle, screenwriter John Hodge, and producer Andrew Macdonald - the same team that made Trainspotting (also starring McGregor), last year’s invigoratingly brash and artful comedy of young punk junkies in Scotland? The answer is that sometimes, it takes people this talented to misfire this completely. Look, it’s McGregor as a ”rebel” janitor, firing bullets at the robot who just took over his job! Watch, it’s McGregor and Diaz on the lam, doing a drunken karaoke rendition of Bobby Darin’s ”Beyond the Sea”! (Small consolation: They don’t follow it up with ”I Got You, Babe.”) Behold, it’s Holly Hunter and Delroy Lindo as kamikaze angels who unite our hero and heroine by opening fire on them and then - in Hunter’s case - crawling all over their speeding car! Watching A Life Less Ordinary (even the title makes fun seem obtuse), we’re hit with one coy, absurdist, is-this- wild-or-what? conceit after another. An egregiously chaotic screwball picaresque, starring Ewan McGregor as a hapless kidnapper (I mean, romantic dreamer) and Cameron Diaz as a poor little rich girl who’s only too willing to be taken hostage (you could, in other words, call her … a romantic dreamer), the movie achieves the singular feat of being terminally whimsical and terminally raucous at the same time. A Life Less Ordinary is that kind of disaster. Occasionally, though, a film is so out of balance, so extravagantly misconceived, that it goes off the rails, zooms over the cliff, and crashes into the canyon, laughing all the way. We’ve all seen movies that go off the rails.
0 kommentar(er)
