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USA 2004
Director: Paul Abascal
Cast: Cole Hauser, Robin Tunney, Tom Sizemore, Dennis Farina, Daniel Baldwin, Blake Michael Bryan
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: 3 September 2004
Running Time: 1 hour 24 minutes
The Movie Review
Well, this movie sure stirs up the majority of critics out there, since Paparazzi is attacking the work of reporters. But let me review it as a movie that belongs to Revenge sub genre.
Cole Hauser stars as Bo Laramie an upcoming new movie star for his successful film called "Adrenalin Shock 2" and also a husband to Abby Laramie (Robin Tunney) and a father to Zach Laramie (Blake Bryan). Cole has everything in live, fame, fortune, happy family, a nice kid, a caring wife and huge fans. Everybody also wants a piece of his live, even it is only through a mean of news. This reason provokes four extreme reporters lead by Rex Harper (Tom Sizemore) that will do anything, exactly anything to have controversial and very personal pictures of Bo and his family. They stalk, trick, set trap,
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rummage through Bo's personal stuffs and other wicked means. One night these Paparazzis along with a girl who is Rex's friend take their mission too far when they dangerously take pictures of Bo and his family while riding a car eventually causes a traffic accident that almost takes Bo and Abby's lives and finally put Zach laying in a coma. Much to Bo's disappointment, he decides to let it go and continue his work, but feeling no regrets of the accident, the four paparazzi constantly exploiting Bo's life. Bo knows that these ever-present legal voyeurs will not stop until their lives are stopped.
This movie has almost every aspects of a good revenge movie should be, it spends a good amount of time to introduce us that Bo is merely a man who loves his family and a good person far from being snobbish and it also acknowledges us to how mean and heartless these paparazzis are who treat celebrities like cattles, even one of those reporters has attempted a rape to a woman (now, that is in no way be a noble deed right?). The way Bo takes revenge is very creative, he can be considered never actually lay hands to the voyeurs except for one of them (I'm not spoiling it), but that too is not shown to audience (off-screen).
In this action crima film, we are not presented with a lunatic takes revenge with axes, machine guns, or anything sadistic compare to other revenge movies, the revenge acts have been toned-down without eliminating the essence which I find cleverly executed. Bo's targets are clear, he's not killing everybody just because they are also carrying professional camera, He seeks justice. The only flaw in this film is that the paparazzi never killed Bo or his family, so Bo's acts don't meet the concept of An Eye for an Eye.
Respect is a very important sentiment a person must have, it makes you consider other people's feelings. Wearing legal signs or ID doesn't justify you to do bad things or inflict physical or mental damage upon others. There are consequences to all those evil deeds and Paparazzi could show it in a blatant but good way.
© iwan pranowo of Movielogy.com
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