The Wrong Man

By: The Dude

Director: Paul McGuigan
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Bruce Willis, Josh Hartnett, Ben Kingsley, Lucy Liu
Rating: 3 out of 5

So, I'm sitting down watching The Wrong Man, right, and there's this weird opening scene with Bruce Willis being all cool and stuff. Only you don't know what the scene means or see the end of it because thanks to Quentin Tarrentino and Mr Madonna Guy Ritchie doing them popular out-of-sequence flicks, anyone making a movie these days reckons it's cool to do the same thing - even my old man who videoed my birth and then tried to talk my mum into re-creating how it all started.

Thank God she hates Tarrentino movies, yeah. But I digress. The Wrong Man has some snappy dialogue, and a twisted plot that jumps all over the shop, but is a poor man's Tarrentino, is what.

It’s about this lucky number Slevin dude, who is mistaken as someone else by The Boss and The Rabbi – hence the movie title. He meets this hysterical Chinese chick what used to be a Charlie’s Angel and together they try to find out what happened to the real guy these two crime lords are seeking.

All up, not a bad flick, although it is a tad violent, which means it loses a couple o’ points on the wife-o-meter.

Extras: Some extended and deleted scenes with more o’ that snappy scripting I mentioned. The yak tracks are pretty cool too, but the alternate ending is weird, yeah. Typical making of doco too.

Verbatim:
The Boss: "They call him 'the Fairy'..."
Slevin: "Why do they call him 'the Fairy'?"
The Boss: "Because he's a fairy."
Slevin: "What, he's got wings, he can fly, he sprinkles magic dust all over the place?"
The Boss: "He's a homosexual "

In a word: Entertaining