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Jennifer
Lopez's career has leapt leaps and bounds in the last couple
of years. Now she's starring in her first lead role in a movie
which should more than break even.
That doesn't
mean it's a good film. It's okay but far from great.
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As you
might expect when you cross a pop star with a director whose
credits include REM's "Losing My Religion", there's
plenty of gloss, not a lot of plot.
Lopez
plays Catherine Deane, a child psychotherapist. She has a
rather unconventional way of finding out the source of people's
problems. She virtually gets inside their head.
Suffice
to say she's called in to enter the mind of serial killer
Carl Stargher (D'Onofrio), who has entered a comatose state
but still has his latest victim trapped in a tank that's slowly
filling with water.
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we make a pop video now? |
So the
film becomes a race against time and a great excuse to introduce
a range of weird and wonderful imagery.
The trouble
is the vassals take precedence over the acting and characterisation.
One weird sequence follows another, almost to overload.
Jennifer
Lopez undoubtedly has a long acting career ahead of her. What
she needs next is a film which will push her acting abilities
slightly more than The Cell.
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