Movie review: Ricochet
Mar. 16th, 2010 11:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seriousficThere are probably about ten different movies with this title, so. This is the one with Denzel Washington as a charming assistant DA who's so charming that he met his wife by writing her a ticket and then giving her his phone number in case she wanted to get it ripped up. Charmingly. It must be good to be Denzel Washington. Oh, and John Lithgow as the psychopath who Washington put away back when he was a cop, and who now wants needlessly elaborate revenge!
I don’t know if I’d call Ricochet a good movie; its plot forces a number of supposedly brilliant characters to make idiotic decisions, it has a third act that compounds that stupidity tenfold (if you’ve been framed for murder, why not blow up a building to prove your innocence?), and I’m pretty sure that a copy of Predator is missing its soundtrack, because this movie has the exact same musical cues. But it does have… a prison fight… between John Lithgow… and a Nazi samurai… played by Jesse ‘the Body’ Ventura. Lick that lollipop, Oz!
Plus, it manages to work in Kevin Pollock’s god-like Shatner impression, which inclines me to give it an automatic thumbs up. I mean, fucking look at this impression!
I don’t know if I’d call Ricochet a good movie; its plot forces a number of supposedly brilliant characters to make idiotic decisions, it has a third act that compounds that stupidity tenfold (if you’ve been framed for murder, why not blow up a building to prove your innocence?), and I’m pretty sure that a copy of Predator is missing its soundtrack, because this movie has the exact same musical cues. But it does have… a prison fight… between John Lithgow… and a Nazi samurai… played by Jesse ‘the Body’ Ventura. Lick that lollipop, Oz!
Plus, it manages to work in Kevin Pollock’s god-like Shatner impression, which inclines me to give it an automatic thumbs up. I mean, fucking look at this impression!
