Joel Schumacher is the most inconsistent film-maker ever to take the camera. The man seems seriously to schizophrenia. This is the guy who made a beautiful poignant Tigerland really the same man who thought of the line, "Ice to see you!" Golden Age comics? His film Veer wildly between good blacks holes (Phone Booth, Tigerland, Lost Boys), and miniature suck so strong that light itself can not escape from them (Batman and Robin, 8mm). Well, Veronica Guerin stuffed it in the film, without subtlety, and the whole depth of the first grader's book report, trying to guilt you do not like. Just so I'm panning the film about a woman who sacrificed her life to children living in Ireland may be a little 'less miserable slums. Yes, I'm going to hell.
The only film I remember the feeling was so manipulated by Patch Adams, a film that desperately wanted to make you a kinder person, better, despite the relentlessly awful, still felt like a bad thing, when you took the hammer of the sludge. Minor spoilers to follow.
Veronica Guerin, is on the right, Veronica Guerin. Guerin was a journalist who went to the 90 brave crusade against drug trafficking Irish, much to their dislike, and was killed. On the way we subplots of every journalist in the world outside is a coward Guerin and how drugs are out of balance yo. This is the kind of film where the director does not know if you understand that the villain is bad, so he yells while cursing and death threats, it is him shouting curses and death threats, so that it beats the crap out of Guerin. Now, I'm sorry, unless the crime boss is Bozo the clown, he is not going to beat the crap out of Guerin personally. This leads me to believe that it is A. It's the stupid crime boss in history. B. This film is just doing things. I am inclined to go with B. Now I am sure that Guerin was persecuted, and I'm sure it took a beating. But I am also convinced that the head of an organization of crime have not personally.
Now let me say this, if there is one good thing about actors Guerin. Cate Blanchett gives Veronica a quiet dignity that the rest of the film does not. Gerard McSorley has remarkably stupid crime boss, John Gilligian with a ferocious energy that is impossible not to like, even if the character itself is so believable as a movie by Oliver Stone. Colin Farrell appears in a cameo that is both entertaining and very very very very useless. Never mind. None of this saves this mess.
Issues of credibility, a job plotting evil, and a complete lack of subtlety aside, the biggest problem is self-Guerin. We do not know who he is. He holds a saint. Now, yes Guerin was a very brave and good, but it is not Gandhi. Why is he doing this? Moral outrage? Death Wish? Frankly, I have not the faintest idea, and I'm pretty sure that Schumacher did or Blanchett. He presents a puzzle, and not very interesting. He, Michael Moore, a character without motivation or spirit, a holy determination to use is about busting the drug dealers angry at the camera. Presented as a martyr, not a man. Seriously, this is a problem at the heart of this film is too sacred Guerin interesting.
If you go into this film ready to go out feeling of nausea. Not because Guerin fought injustice and finally succumbed, but because you feel like Joel Schumacher spent two hours for the seizure and the cry of "Look! Look at this woman who died from drugs that are vicious bastards" while Cate Blanchett is a strong determination. The only thing you feel coming out of this film is handled and absorbed worse than Batman and Robin.
The only film I remember the feeling was so manipulated by Patch Adams, a film that desperately wanted to make you a kinder person, better, despite the relentlessly awful, still felt like a bad thing, when you took the hammer of the sludge. Minor spoilers to follow.
Veronica Guerin, is on the right, Veronica Guerin. Guerin was a journalist who went to the 90 brave crusade against drug trafficking Irish, much to their dislike, and was killed. On the way we subplots of every journalist in the world outside is a coward Guerin and how drugs are out of balance yo. This is the kind of film where the director does not know if you understand that the villain is bad, so he yells while cursing and death threats, it is him shouting curses and death threats, so that it beats the crap out of Guerin. Now, I'm sorry, unless the crime boss is Bozo the clown, he is not going to beat the crap out of Guerin personally. This leads me to believe that it is A. It's the stupid crime boss in history. B. This film is just doing things. I am inclined to go with B. Now I am sure that Guerin was persecuted, and I'm sure it took a beating. But I am also convinced that the head of an organization of crime have not personally.
Now let me say this, if there is one good thing about actors Guerin. Cate Blanchett gives Veronica a quiet dignity that the rest of the film does not. Gerard McSorley has remarkably stupid crime boss, John Gilligian with a ferocious energy that is impossible not to like, even if the character itself is so believable as a movie by Oliver Stone. Colin Farrell appears in a cameo that is both entertaining and very very very very useless. Never mind. None of this saves this mess.
Issues of credibility, a job plotting evil, and a complete lack of subtlety aside, the biggest problem is self-Guerin. We do not know who he is. He holds a saint. Now, yes Guerin was a very brave and good, but it is not Gandhi. Why is he doing this? Moral outrage? Death Wish? Frankly, I have not the faintest idea, and I'm pretty sure that Schumacher did or Blanchett. He presents a puzzle, and not very interesting. He, Michael Moore, a character without motivation or spirit, a holy determination to use is about busting the drug dealers angry at the camera. Presented as a martyr, not a man. Seriously, this is a problem at the heart of this film is too sacred Guerin interesting.
If you go into this film ready to go out feeling of nausea. Not because Guerin fought injustice and finally succumbed, but because you feel like Joel Schumacher spent two hours for the seizure and the cry of "Look! Look at this woman who died from drugs that are vicious bastards" while Cate Blanchett is a strong determination. The only thing you feel coming out of this film is handled and absorbed worse than Batman and Robin.
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