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New Century of Cinema
DOWSE Guide to the
Movies
by Tony Lee editor of
Pigasus
Press
Body Shots
100 minutes (18) EV
Director: Michael Cristofer
review by Rob Marshall
Almost fatally flawed US brat-pack style movie, Body Shots begins as a markedly
brash, talking-to-camera romantic comedy, flails clumsily through the character
studies of a mixed set of emotionally shallow 1990s yuppies (sharply dressed party
animals, makeup-ad glam blondes - both genders oozing sex appeal), then collapses
finally into a risibly vacuous questioning of the so-called 'date-rape' phenomenon.
The only familiar face here is that of Jerry O'Connell, somewhat awkwardly trying to
shed the goody whiz-kid image cultivated for TV's much-troubled Sliders. He's
at the centre of the sleazy plot here, but director Michael Cristofer (the screenwriter
of American History X)
does this film no favours by presenting O'Connell's rampant alcoholic character as
shamefully lacking in remorse for his actions - which include beating up a bouncer at
the nightclub he gets thrown out of.
The whole thing is overly style conscious, and it's actually difficult to
figure out who this circus of errors is aimed at, or why. I'm immediately suspicious
of any film that claims (however quietly) to speak to, or for, a particular generation.
This pretentious and sloppily executed drama undermines everything of significance it
tries to say - by shooting and cutting in a relentlessly fussy manner when more
straightforward techniques would, perhaps, have improved things considerably.
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