Observe and Report reviewed by Maximus
Warner Bothers new comedy Observe and Report was released in UK last Friday (24th of April). In the film a security shopping mall security guard who suffers from bi-polar depression was asked to stop a flasher from embarrassing shopper at the mall he works, he did manage to arrest the flasher but thing did not go as expected.
As usual, the guys in US gets to see new films a good two weeks or longer before it crossed the Atlantic and find its way to UK cinemas, I would have thought this days that every thing is sort of done digitally film released can be arrange so that they are released same day worldwide. Anyway, Maximus was the film in US he gave his own personal review as follows:
Okay. Suffice it to say that I went in expecting a certain kind of movie and got… Something else.
Observe and Report is touted as a comedy. And though there are some pretty funny parts to this movie, it is anything but a comedy. This is no Paul Blart: Mall Cop. This movie is a bit disturbing, if only because you can ALMOST see the real life aspects of the film. Ronnie Barnhardt (Seth Rogen) is the bi-polar head of security at the mall. He is tormented by a flasher who, at the beginning of the movie, is running around the parking lot scaring the hell out of the female shoppers. Ronnie is in love with Brandi (Anna Faris), a make-up counter girl in one of the stores in the mall. She barely tolerates Ronnie. But when Brandi gets “attacked” by the flasher Ronnie makes it his quest to catch the pervert.
Ronnie also wants to be a cop and goes about applying for the police academy. Of course he fails. And there is one scene that sums up the entire movie : Detective Harrison (Ray Liotta) is Ronnie’s nemesis in the police department and he is relishing the moment of telling Ronnie that he didn’t pass the psychological evaluation for the academy – he tells one of his police buddies to hide in the closet while he breaks the news to Ronnie. So halfway through Harrison telling Ronnie that he didn’t make it, Harrison’s police buddy comes out of the closet and says, “I’m sorry. You know, I thought this would be funny, but instead it’s just sad.” And that’s the movie in a nutshell – it’s sad and more than a little pathetic.
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