In this review of The Tailor of Panama, I could probably just say, "Save your money." However, there are lessons to be learned.First, don't go to see a movie just because a great actor, in this case Geoffrey Rush, is in it, because you can't judge a movie from the past ones that the actor played in.
Even Geoffrey Rush could not make this movie digestible. The movie started out hopeful with Geoffrey Rush doing his usual fine job of acting.And then along comes Pierce Brosnan. Now I didn't like Pierce Brosnan as an actor before I went to see the film. That was my big mistake–I should have trusted my judgment. I was also too optimistic in thinking perhaps Pierce Brosnan had found a role with some integrity. Boy was I wrong. He was his silly 007 self with even worse lines. Profanity coming from the upstart English actor that he is was also out of context for him. And then, of course, you had to watch him in several sex scenes, which couldn't prove his manhood in a thousand years. And next, along comes Jamie Lee Curtis' big boobs shot on the camera in full living color. Its too bad, because she's really a good actress. Why she allows herself to be sold so cheaply is beyond me.
I guess it all ends up in those two words–"selling out." Shame on you Geoffrey Rush. Somewhere along the line in making that film you had to know it was trash.
I always tell myself I'm going to do the research before I go to see a movie, then comes those circumstances when you're out with friends, walking by a theater, and you decide to go in based upon the past good films of one actor, in this case Geoffrey Rush. That's my excuse. I'll never do it again.Lesson learned.
~Van of Urantia*MPAA = Motion Picture Association of America
