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Payback
Starring Mel Gibson and Maria Bello
Directed by Brian Helgeland
Playing at Hollywood 16 and College
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P ayback is one of those post-Tarrantino, Elmore
Leonard-knockoff neo-noirs that film students
churn out like a factory. Only Gibson could pull
off the role of Porter, a professional thief and baddie.
He speaks in a gravelly voice, breaks peoples
hands, sets mobsters on fire and rips out nose
rings. Like all bad guys. Porter emits a painful scowl
that seems like he is channeling Humphrey Bogart
through a laxative commercial.
Porter comes across like a sadist version of Riggs,
Gibson's Lethal Weapon character. Naturally, the au
dience loves him.
Val (Gregg Henry) shot Porter and took Porter’s
money so he could buy his way back into a shady
organization known as the Syndicate or the Outfit.
However, Porter did not die and is back looking to
settle the old score. Along the way he hooks back up
with Rosie (Bello, of “ER” fame), a hooker he used to
“drive,” and says to her, “You're the only good thing in
my life.” The two then set out to get Porter’s money.
Porter encounters a plethora of smoothly dressed
mobsters and corrupt cops and somehow manages
to take down all of them in a Yojimbo-son of way.
The money is almost an excuse for Porter to kick
in some skulls. The audience gets the feeling he does
not really care about the money (on more than one
occasion, he is offered $130,000 and turns it down).
Porter just wants to inflict pain on anyone in his
path, even the audience, as they are lulled into this
sadomasochistic farce. Payback becomes an exercise
in film violence. Based on Richard Stark’s 1962 novel
The Hunter — which also served as the template for
John Boorman’s 1967 film Point Blank — Payback has
one of those typical Hollywood backstories.
Helgeland and his replacement use mostly grays in
this film, desperately trying to capture the feel of the
old noirs, but this film does not go anywhere, nor say
anything. It is incredibly predictable and occasionally
silly, but it does both with style. (Grade: C + )
description perfectly. The Kung-Fu and wo:*
slaying is left behind as Cellar, star of “Bur ®
pire Slayer,” takes the role of AmandaShetal
gling restaurant owner/chef, in Simplyk
Amanda meets a young, successful
store executive Tom Bartlett (Flaneryjat
love at first sight.
Mysterious magic begins to turn her
down as her cooking skills become pheno
A relationship between Tom and Ami
predictable as the movie’s ending.
This movie leaves audiences askinga
tions. No one knows where the magic can-
why she was even given the gift in thefe:
A few laughs are delivered, but alltnali
Cellar for two hours should have been
joy this movie. It wasn’t. (Grade: C-)
Life is Beautiful
Starring Roberto Benigni
Nicoletta Braschi
Directed by Roberto
laying at Hollywood 1
Rated PG-13
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— Jeff Schmidt
Simply Irresistible
Starring Sarah Michelle Cellar and
Sean Patrick Flannery
Directed by Mark Tarlov
Showing at Hollywood 16
Rated PC 13
T he crowd at Tinseltown seems to be getting
younger everyday. With movies like Varsity
Blues and She’s All That scoring big at the box
office, there was bound to be a teen-movie flop.
few critics have distorted themeae
Italian film Life is Beautiful. Iksi
film trivializes the Holocaust, usins
to belittle this tragedy. They arewrongl
Beautiful is not about the Holocaustbui:
power of love and imagination in thefacen
Benigni, an Italian cross between Char U
and Jim Carrey, wrote, directed and stats;®:
charming and beguiling movie that hasbuK
nated for seven Oscars including Best Pic ||
Best Foreign Language Film, the first mo\ p
(1969) to pull off this double feat.
The film is a tale of two halves.
The light-hearted first half is focusedc t •
courting of Dora (Mraschi, Benigni's real- , .<•
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do and Dora married and with a child,Gkv_f:\ w 'd
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tration camp. The family is rounded uparcffiP; t0 belie
oned. In order to protect his >011 ironiibc ^nte.xt.
Guido tells Giosue the camp is a big game, With all
ner of which will receive a ival tank. ith the holi
Benigni called the film a fable, and it feud hieaninj
one. Suspension of disbelief is needed toe There are
film as Benigni slightly alters historytoproilentine’s l
point: love conquers all. r twist and
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whimsy of silent film star Chaplin. Thesid History pr
change of tone in the middle is jarring,bine explana
half foreshadows the coming storm. Benipe’s Day 01
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