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We're No Angels (1989)
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3
Viewed:
5/11
5/11:
There's nothing more fun than seeing Sean Penn make a gigantic fool out of himself in a film, so I can mock him as
one of the most overrated actors alive.
That's what happened in We're No Angels. While Sean Penn is hamming it up like an idiot, Robert De Niro makes a painful
attempt at comedy by letting his faces do the work for him as if he's Curly of the Three Stooges. More often than not, he
looks like a stupid monkey.
To top them in the worst acting department is Demi Moore who reaches the zenith of corniness when she begins to cry during
the ridiculous speech after hearing of the lottery result. Moreover, she doesn't bother using American Sign Language with
her deaf daughter. I guess she thinks her breasts will more than make up for her shortcoming. Sure, the movie is funny
once in a while mostly because of Robert De Niro, causing me to laugh out of pity. To list the reasons of why there's no
logic whatsoever, they're as follows:
First of all, I'm not made aware of the crimes Ned and Jimmy had committed prior to their incarceration. What if they're
murderers and/or rapists?
Second, if Robert De Niro and Sean Penn were replaced with a couple of nobodies, would I be rooting for them? Obviously not.
Hence, there's too much manipulation at play.
Third, just because they might escape to Canada doesn't mean their extradition will be impossible.
Fourth, the 1930's wasn't the age of backwardness when it came to photography and newspaper journalism. Surely, there would be clear
pictures of the escaped convicts in the papers, alerting the citizens if they had seen them yet.
Fifth, remember the scene when Bobby was ready to be electrocuted? To get away with suspension of disbelief, Neil Jordan lets
him have a gun by turning off the lights for a second or two. Yeah, that's a great piece of directing...not.
Sixth, nobody from the penal institution is able to recognize Ned and Jimmy while they're in town? Yeah, right.
All in all, We're No Actors is more like it.