The Man Movie
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One guy walks the walk. The other talks and talks.
Only one of them can be...
Special Agent Derrick Vann is a man out to get the man who killed his partner but a case of mistaken identity leads him to Andy Fidler, a salesman with too many questions and a knack of getting in Vanns way.
| Samuel L. Jackson | Derrick Vann |
| Eugene Levy | Andy Fiddler |
| Luke Goss | Joey/Kane |
| Miguel Ferrer | Agent Peters |
| Susie Essman | Lt. Rita Carbone |
| Anthony Mackie | Booty |
| Gigi Rice | Susan |
| Rachael Crawford | Dara Vann |
| Philip Akin | Second I.A. Agent |
| Christopher Murray | Homeless Man |
| Joel S. Keller | Laptop Guy |
| John Hemphill | Ted |
| Kathryn Greenwood | Flight Attendant |
| Carrie Cain-Sparks | Big Kim |
| George Ghali | Cab Driver |
| Les Mayfield |
5.40 out of 10 (7795 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Entertaining light fare
posted on 31 Jul 2009This was by no means the best film I had ever seen. It wasn't a particularly original premise or story, nor were the jokes and gags that great...and it will by no means end up in the pantheon of the great buddy dramas...but this movie was entertaining! And isn't that the point? The movie had some language that might offend some, and a lot of the humor was crude. The base of this movie however was Sam Jackson in a familiar "Sam Jackson" character and Eugene Levy in typical Eugene Levy role.It only lasted 80 minutes or so, and there were not big plot 'twists'. Just a quick story with a few laughs. Not something that I would want to watch over and over, but worth renting or watching on cable.
Extremely Funny!!!
posted on 15 Jul 2009This movie is extremely hilarious! Eugene Levy and Samuel L. Jackson were awesome together! A dentist named Andy Fiddler is getting ready to go to Detroit to give a speech about dental tools. While in Detroit, he just happens to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, and some gun-dealers think he is a buyer. Agent Vann thinks Andy is robbing the store, because one of the bad guys gives Andy a gun. Throughout the film, Andy is annoying to Vann, who has no time for nonsense. Vann needs Andy to pretend he's wants to buy stolen guns in order to bring the bad guys down. Vann eventually begins to like Andy. If you love comedy, you'll love THE MAN!!!
poor attempt at a film
posted on 21 Jun 2009This is the only way i can describe this effort. It is puzzling to say the least to try and figure out why such commanding actors as Jackson and Levy signed themselves onto this project. Within 20 minutes of the film you can begin to realise that there are a number of shortfalls in the script, plot and characters. For me, strong characters are the spine of any movie, this one is clearly without. We are not watching two people on the screen, rather a pair of conflicting behaviours. At no point in the film, despite several opportunities, do the characters break the mould and behave differently. Jackson is permanently angry and Levy stays stuck to the mumbling, unstable persona throughout. These would have taken effect in small doses but when you have to watch it in every scene, it gets old quickly. They some across as undeveloped cardboard cut-outs of characters. The plot suffers the same problems. It is undeveloped and simple. Any possible criminal deal has been plucked out of the air and put in the hands of a group of cliché villains with no background or motives, and our heroes devise a plan to save the day without a thought. It appears that the plot was secondary to the clash of the characters. Toilet humour and other thoughtless jokes have been forced into the film, often where they don't belong, and its sets a record for its countless number of clichés. Id say the only thing that keeps this film alive is the screen presence and reputations of Jackson and Levy. You expect more from start to finish so you sit it out hoping, but in the end it fails to deliver. Its simplistic, unambitious formula material. Maybe abit more effort all round could have made a decent film, we'll never know.
i pull the strings, you dance.
posted on 13 Jun 2009in another underwhelming buddy cop action comedy, Sam Jackson is teamed up with Eugene Levy after he is mistaken for someone else.this then leads to Levys' character having to help Jackson uncover the whereabouts of some stolen guns and a few murders that are a little too close to agent Vann.this is very predictable fare with an impressive cast. the film is not funny or amusing, but Jackson and Levy just about manage to salvage the film from four star status thanks to their great chemistry. Levy just may as well be playing Jims' dad from the American pie series, but he is good at doing the anally retentive role, and everybody likes Jackson in his shouty sweary role.it's just at times the humour is verging on the racial side. sometimes you feel it is written by a stand up comedian whose favourite joke is.. white people drive like this (does a geeky action), and black people drive like this (does a cool action).but you cannot help but enjoy the film to an extent. there is a little homage to Jacksons role in pulp fiction when he says the line 'it's a tasty burger' you can almost see Jules on the screen.direction is flat and so is the story, and Mayfield just about throws every buddy comedy cliché into the mix and you can see them coming from a mile away.but at just over 75 minutes, it's harmless fun that won't damage your brain cells and will raise a smile or two.
Sometimes Funny
posted on 13 Jun 2009Dental Supply Salesman Andy Fiddler (Levy) gets mistaken for a guns buyer (Jackson as Vann, a Federal Agent). Now Vann has to has to "partner up" with Fiddler to fool the bad guys.It would have been better if the director reined in Levy as his character performance is the same every time we see him. It's a little much and has lost its effectiveness. Levy needs to get out of this rut. If he was muted some and picked his spots his lines would have been funnier. He could have acted more scared for his life than he was. I mean, here he is negotiating with the bad guys like he was getting tickets for a Broadway play. Yes, I know this is supposed to be a comedy, but this was a fearful situation. For me his lines were not funny. Jackson was okay as the straight man.Now, I did say this was sometimes funny. There are three funny instances. In the first, I hadn't laughed this hard since Jim Carrey, in BRUCE ALMIGHTY, as God made an On Air TV Newsman speak gibberish. Fiddler tells Vann he is hungry and Vann gets him a hamburger to which Fiddler says red meat doesn't agree with him, but eats it anyway. The scene, after the meal, in the car is nothing short of hilarious. I am still laughing. The other two instances involve an elevator and a cavity search at the airport when they part. If it weren't for those three scenes, this would have been a total bust for me.
One of the worst films I've seen over the last year!
posted on 09 Jun 2009When the credits rolled on this one, I just sat in sheer amazement. Amazement that this thing had such terrible writing and direction. I can't fault Jackson or Levy, they had to do what they were hired to do, I suppose, but this movie is atrocious, and may be the death knell for 'buddy' movies. Average premise, really good villain, and precious little else. A complete waste of time. Jackson had best start picking his projects with more care, or his career is going to go into the toilet. Worse than many direct-to-video productions. Avoid this like the black plague. Juvenile attempt at comedy, about 3 funny lines, overacting by Jackson, annoying acting by Levy, I can't begin to say what a complete disappointment this movie was, and I'm overwhelmed at all the good comments it's getting here. Just terrible. If Nick Nolte & Martin Short had played the parts, it might have been bearable, but maybe not. I only know there was no chemistry of any kind between Levy & Jackson.
If Levy is "The Man" here, Goss must be "The Woman".
posted on 28 May 2009Sort of like "Midnight Run" but not nearly as good. Thanks to very good casting of Jackson and Levy, however, it is an amiable enough action comedy. No major laughs but quite watchable. Mediocre casting of these two roles would have sunk this movie beyond help, because the script doesn't have that much going for it.However, casting Ferrer and Goss was a total blunder. Miguel is one of thousands of nepotists working in Hollywood, i.e. a talentless man, totally lacking in any charisma. His Daddy is Jose Ferrer, the actor, and his mother the terrible singer Rosemary Clooney. Yes, that makes Miguel the cousin of George Clooney, another bad nepotist actor, and as of recently world saviour and liberal doo-goodering flag-waver. ("I know how to solve the Darfur crisis, for I am George from the movies...") George is Rosemary Clooney's nephew and son of broadcast journalist Nick Clooney. It's all in the (Hollywood) family...Goss plays a bad-a** criminal, which is preposterous casting. The effeminate features combined with those teeth as white as a polar bear's behind might remind you of someone... Goss? Does anyone remember that girl group, Bros, from the 80s? Actually, to be fair it was a boy-band, but everyone I know, including me, thought they were girls when they first saw their one-hit-wondering video and heard the high-pitched whining that was supposed to be singing. (It was just Goss experiencing the pains of losing a particular brand of virginity-losing.) When Jackson said that Levy was "his bitch", he must have confused him with Goss's character... "When will I, will I be fa-mouuuuuus?"; so goes the little pop ditty Goss sang (or rather, squeaked) for the screaming teeny-boppers. Well, the answer to that is: you will be famous again when you make more movies. You just need to convince more producers that you are star material. The world needs more female-looking movie heroes/baddies; we just haven't got enough already!So what does Goss's casting in an action comedy bode for the future? Does this mean Justin(e) Timberlake will be play a heavy in 10 years, chasing the likes of De Niro through the streets of Brooklyn? Most probably. Maybe Joey Fat-One from N'Synch will play an ex-marine in a PC drama by Reiner. Or maybe even... No, there is no "even". That's as bad as it can get, and will get.Hollywood, goodbye! It's been a fun 100 years, but now you're dead. I guess I'll have to watch Japanese movies from now on; at least they make SOME effort...If you want to see my extensive Hollywood Nepotism List, contact me by e-mail. Or you can go to http://rateyourmusic.com/~Fedor8 and check out my "TV & Cinema: 150 Worst Cases Of Nepotism" list.
'The Man' a limp piñata of clichéd characters, jokes and plots that begs to be hit...
posted on 20 May 2009'The Man' a limp piñata of clichéd characters, jokes and plots that begs to be hit...The miscast Samuel L. Jackson stars as Derrick Vann, a caustic, gung ho Federal Agent who has 24 hours to recover a pile of stolen weapons and find his former partner's killers. This becomes much more challenging when the bad guys mistake salesman Andy Fiddler (Levy, also miscast) for the gun buyer. Now, Vann has to get Andy to pose as the front man in a sting operation.The only thing that set's 'The Man' apart from any other buddy cop movie is that it wastes the most talent in less time then you can say "He's my bitch." I was planning on seeing "Emily Rose", but it was sold out, so I got stuck with this limp, unnecessary buddy cop "comedy" with not an original idea in it's mess of clichés. Both actors have real talent, but are wasted, trying to do their best with weak material. While the film does have some laughs, it's a lame movie with recycled jokes that doesn't realize it's a lame movie with recycled jokes. That's the real problem here.Brainless movies are appreciated when they don't take themselves too seriously. 'The Man' can't be classified in this category because It does take itself too seriously, and actually begins to think it's a passable movie. If I wanted to see brainless fun, there are much better options out there. Don't waste $10 on this movie, don't even wait for it on DVD. Avoid.The Man: D(3 from 10)
pretty funny
posted on 24 Apr 2009I thought it was a pretty funny movie, the farting scenes made me giggle a bit, then got old after a while. Which started to annoy me! some other scenes were funny, but not enough to be a funny movie. So it is a pretty funny comedy. there were not enough laughs for me to give it any more than six stars. If it had been funnier it would have gotten seven or maybe eight stars from me. Over all I think it was a good movie and is a sort of a wast of a comedy, but not a total waste of a comedy. It was not a real waste of time to watch either. Over all I have no more to say, but I have to tell you this because I don't have enough lines yet for me to be able to send in this review. lol
"He can't be any dumber than he looks"
posted on 27 Mar 2009Following the old, and sometimes over repeated, Action/Comedy formula THE MAN adds something different to the genre. This combination between the Action Thriller and Comedy was done so many times before but not with a personality like Eugene Levy! He truly is "the man"! I mean this guy is unique in the way he represents the dumb guy, because he's genuine! No offense to the actor but like is said in the film "he can't be any dumber than he looks"! He really represents the dumb guy with simplicity, honesty, and mostly, veracity! I think this duet, Samuel L Jackson and Eugene Levy, worked out very well, because they are both excellent actors, and they represent very well the tough and the dumb guy respectively. And the combination of these two character genres, played by these actors, was amazing. At parts it was hilarious (the "He's my bitch" scene is remarkable!).THE MAN is essentially action and fun but it also has one or two nice messages either. It's an entertaining film, made in Hollywood standards, but it's a very nice one in the genre.
No chemistry between Jackson and Levy
posted on 13 Mar 2009This movie was mildly humorous. Samuel Jackson and Eugene Levy tried, but I think this movie was doomed from the start. Samuel Jackson is not all that funny to begin with. He is at his best and funniest when he is in an action or suspense film and he's providing the comedy relief. To put him in a comedy outright is not his forte. Eugene Levy is a funny person, but his comedy hinges upon him being a supporting actor. I'm not talking about supporting actor as in second lead, but as in 3rd, 4th, or 5th string actor. Eugene Levy is good in small doses.I can see how the producers would think that Jackson and Levy would make a good duet and it was a novel effort. Now, they should just learn from their mistake and move on. Jackson and Levy just never hit it off on screen, and it was a good lesson for everyone that they should stick to the roles they are most familiar with.
In a summer of too many bad movies, this may be the worst...
posted on 03 Feb 2009As the movie opens, Detroit BATF Agent Derrick Vann (Samuel L. Jackson) is having a really bad day. His partner has been murdered, and he's a suspect. A storehouse of firearms has been stolen from the evidence locker, and he's a suspect. Internal affairs officers (headed up by actor Miguel Ferrar) issue warnings and ultimatums. And his lieutenant (Susie Essman) is none too happy about any of these things. Vann isn't, either, but at least he decides to try to do something about it.Meanwhile, a few hundred miles to the west in the great state of Wisconsin, dental equipment salesman Andy Fidler (Eugene Levy) is preparing to give a major speech at a sales convention to be held in (what a surprise) Detroit. His speech is in fine order and his flight is uneventful. But when Andy arrives in Detroit, his simple decision to get a bite to eat lands him right in the middle of the sting operation Vann has set up in an attempt to get the guns back, nab his partner's real killer, and clear his own name.Fidler, who innocently exhibits the signs a go-between is looking for, ends up in possession of one of the stolen firearms. Worse, the bad guys now think he's their buyer. Vann knows he has only one chance to make the deal, and so he forcibly enlists an uncooperative — and entirely naive — Andy to play along. Faced with certain unattractive choices, Andy does his best to work with Vann (his best, unfortunately, isn't much) and even manages to alleviate some of the suspicions held by the gun dealer's representative, Joey (Luke Goss).As the deal progresses in fits, starts, mishaps, and misunderstandings, Internal Affairs continues to surveil Vann in the hopes of nabbing themselves a cop gone bad; more bodies pile up; Vann has personal problems; and Andy ends up in jail, worried he'll miss giving his speech. There's a lot going on in The Man! And all of it happens in 90 or so minutes. That it will seem a whole lot longer says something about the film, and it's not saying anything very nice.Samuel L. Jackson is a good actor. Though he doesn't appear to be slacking off here, there's nothing anyone could do about the horrible lines he's given. I think Eugene Levy is a hoot (he's just wonderful as the earnest father in the American Pie trilogy), but he's not remotely funny in this movie. That's probably because none of his lines are remotely funny. Miguel Ferrar's IA investigator is a caricature at best; Susie Essman is a woman in a man's world artificially made ridiculously prickly by — you guessed it! — some really stupid lines.The direction isn't terrible (though there are some edits that are), but the screenplay is truly abysmal. The storyline is obvious as all get-out, and the script is trite at best (at other times, it degenerates from "trite" directly to "could this be any dumber?"). Both the director and the writing team have some experience under their respective belts (though the résumés don't contain any films of particular note), so they all should have been better than this. That they aren't makes me wonder how it is they ever got the green light to go ahead with what is obviously intended to be a mass market release.Is The Man a comedy? No. I know that because it isn't funny (unless you think really badly handled fart jokes are good humor). Is it a cop movie? Not really. There are stereotypes everywhere, but no real cop action, or even jargon. Is it a drama? Seeing as how it's utterly missing any drama or suspense, I'd give that a "no," too. So what exactly is The Man? Just a really bad movie.I frankly feel bad for the actors caught up in this mess. Each and every one of them deserves better. In honesty, though, I feel even worse for those movie-goers who, either intentionally and with high hopes or by default, end up enduring this film. Entertainment Weekly magazine gave The Man a D+ grade. I think that's wrong. A D+ is a passing grade, and The Man is a complete failure.POLITICAL NOTES: In a movie that intends a federal agency to comprise a major part of the framework for the storyline, you'd think the scriptwriters could at least get the name of the agency right! But they don't. Although the BATF has been the BATFE (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives) for several years, now, it's referenced only as BATF in the film. The movie also gets it wrong when it represents the agents as the good guys (BATFE has a terrible reputation among other federal agencies, and a worse one with gun owners — deserved on both counts). It's only wishful thinking that they'd also be as inept as the movie presents...FAMILY SUITABILITY: The Man is rated PG-13 for "language, rude dialogue and some violence." I frankly found the entire movie offensive as an insult to my intelligence (in a scantly occupied theatre Friday night, nobody else laughed, either). As a result, I don't believe this movie is suitable for anyone of any age. Anyone old enough to follow the shallow plot line (say, 10 or so and up) is also plenty aware enough to resent having wasted the money on this drivel. I'd recommend that you go see something — anything! — else. If the kids insist, be aware that the fart jokes are harmless and the violence isn't graphic. The language does get rough in places, though, so if you find that objectionable you've another good reason to skip The Man and hold out for what we can hope is a better week for movies next week.
Funny
posted on 24 Jan 2009I wasn't expecting a lot from this movie other than a laugh, and it succeeded. Yes, there were dump parts to the movie, but I continued to laugh throughout the entire movie.Samuel Jackson plays his usual tough cop wanting to solve the crime. Eugene Levy as the salesman is very convincing. Even I wanted to tell him to shut-up! Putting the two together creates a very funny duo all the way to the final moments of the movie.There is profanity, but Levy gives Samuel Jackson a cute lesson on how to avoid using the "F" bomb. Along with other "life" lessons that Jackson needed to be reminded of.
Haha Funny!
posted on 31 Dec 2008This may be a spoiler!This movie rocked!!! Eugene Levy was funny!! Samuel Jackson was "The Man!" well both of them were The Man!!! Derrick Vann (Jackson) is trying to find the guy who offed his partner. Along the way, through a bad misinterpretation...he meets Andy Fidler (Levy).. Through mishaps they clash at each other. But when they come face to face with the guy (Luke Goss) who killed Vanns partner. They realize that they have to become real partners or one of them become "The Man" in order to catch him.This movie is beyond funny! When I saw it, I cracked up so bad that I passed out and missed like 20 minutes of the movie. So some people will love it. And some people wont.
Mwaaah...
posted on 17 Nov 2008I really like Samuel Jackson movies. But this one was not good, not bad either. It's about a cop whose partner gets killed while he is undercover buying some guns. Samuel wants to find out who killed his partner and sets a meeting with the boss in a café. Unfortunately someone else gets into his place, a dentist. So he has to take the dentist everywhere with him to get the killer.When the movie begins and you can see Samuel and the dentist don't like each other at all, you already know they will become buddies at the end. The jokes or humor in the movie was average, the most good joke was at the end, I really liked that one! But to see a 1,5 hour movie only to watch a good joke is a waste of your time.There was a flaw in the movie. At the moment the dentist is in the café, he doesn't know there is a gun in the bag the killer gave him. Somewhere in the middle Samuel gets pictures shot in the café, but I didn't see a photographer in the beginning of the movie shooting those pictures. The barman did not have a camera...
film finds no audience
posted on 28 Oct 2008WOW! What a bad movie! WOW! I didn't expect much from it, but it was even worse than I ever imagined it would be! This film reaches NO target audience. It is SO goofy, that only a little kid would find it funny, but yet it has such constant TERRIBLE language that no kid should be allowed to watch it. It should be rated R for the language and violence, yet what person over 17 would like it? It was rated PG-13, but what person 13 or older would even like it? Also, it has no cultural target audience. It badly stereotypes whites as clumsy naive dorks, and blacks as violent ghetto thugs. Who could possibly like this film? Are both Jackson and Levy THAT desperate for work that they took on this project?! I can see Levy, as he has really been typecast into having to take these roles, but Jackson could do MUCH better. If fart jokes and gunshots to the butt, intermixed with constant obscenities makes you laugh, this is your film. Buy it, you'll love it! If you have the maturity of the age level you are supposed to be to see this film, save yourself the trouble, rent something else. Rent Bevis and Butthead. At least they to sophomoric humor well... I gave it a 3 out of 10, but that was charity...
THE absolute WORST....
posted on 06 Oct 2008....display of commercially calculated, formulaic, cynical, uninspired and empty Hollywood 'movie-making' in at LEAST 5 years. There are only two movies since, say 1999, that I have had to seriously battle the urge to walk out of, and this was one of them. And I will sit through pretty much anything. By the by, the other movie was Saving Silverman. This movie is offensively predictable and mind-numbingly brain-corrosively unfunny in it's BEST moments. The best analogy to made is to imagine someone sitting around the camp-fire telling a story. The person telling the story is drunk and half-asleep. And he is telling that story to someone who is presumably retarded. In this scenario, the story-teller is this 'movie', and you and I, fellow movie-goers, are, yes, the retard. Yes, it is THAT insulting. Sad to say, Samuel L.Jackson, as cool as he WAS, is now a hack, collecting a paychecheque for any movie that pays him to utter any variation on a sentence that includes the word 'motherfucker,' and sneer every second line of dialogue in that now clichéd semi-yell he trademarked in Pulp Fiction.I saw this movie for FREE and still regret the two hours of my life I will never get back. Consider this rant as my therapeutic outlet. A VERY BAD movie. This has been a public service announcement.
Man! What a waste!
posted on 24 Sep 2008We've seen it many times before. From "Miami Vice" to "Lethal Weapon", and furthermore in "Rush Hour", the cultural and personality clash of mismatched allies unwittingly working together has long become an established formula.The newest unlikely pairing comes in the guise of Eugene Levy and Samuel L. Jackson, two individuals who stand at the furthest polar opposites from each other, both relying on their stereotypical persona of the tough guy and the bumbling nerd to illustrate this contrast.A routine business trip from Wisconsin to Detroit turns into an unexpected case of mistaken identity for Andy Fiddler (Levy), a dental supply salesman, while heading to a convention.Upon his arrival, he coincidentally crosses paths with Derrick Vann (Jackson), a federal agent who just happens to be dealing with the death of his partner and a stash of stolen firearms. From then on, Derrick uses Andy in his scheme to recover the weapons and expose the leader of the operation (Luke Goss). Andy, who is believed to be a participant in the whole criminal dealings, has no other choice but to cooperate with Derrick and solve the case in time to make it to his convention the next morning."The Man" employs the usual rules of buddy movies, as we see the two leads initially teaming up with reluctance only to inevitably become accustomed to each other in the end. Both discover that they can learn from one another, with Andy teaching Derrick to be more trusting and more appreciative of family values, while Derrick teaches Andy to be more assertive.Levy and Jackson's combination is effective to a certain degree, due in great part to the clear distinction between positivity and negativity which emanate from both characters, the two elements nonetheless blending together to create highly compatible opposites.Unfortunately, this exuded chemistry cannot sustain the rest of the material which all too often resorts to extensive flatulence sequences, resulting in two heavyweight actors floating on nothing more than hot air in a film that practically has no other substance and that lingers unpleasantly, long after it has passed.
Why Can't They Do Better?
posted on 18 Sep 2008I went to see this because at their best, Samuel L. Jackson and Eugene Levy are very likable and watchable actors. Unfortunately, this is not anyone's best--instead it is two actors rehashing old roles (Shaft meets Jim's Dad) in a cliché plot that relies on bathroom humor (peeing in the pool, a cavity search, and repeated bits about flatulence) rather than on any semblance of intelligent screen writing.In fact, the whole plot around a multi-million dollar arms deal is based on the premise that the only way the arms dealer can identify his supposed buyer is that the buyer has a USA Today newspaper. Gee, that sure narrows it down, especially when meeting in a diner within walking distance of a major hotel. It only gets more stupid from there.And maybe it's me, but I have trouble with someone (even Samuel L. Jackson) uttering lines like, "If you don't talk, I'm gonna beat you like a runaway slave." This is a bad screenplay being performed by actors who seem like they are phoning it in. When all is said and done, "The Man" should be thrown into the can.
A Razzie? Whatever...
posted on 16 Aug 2009I just rented this movie last weekend, and I can't understand why it only was NOMINATED for a Razzie. That's crap. This movie, by far, was one of the funniest movies I've seen, and it was well worth watching. Eugene Levy was great, Samuel L. Jackson was great, even Kathryn Greenwood, from "Whose Line is it Anyway?", played the great flight attendant. This movie is full of hilarious lines, which I'm sure you'll be quoting, and some incredibly funny situations. From slapstick to serious comedy, this movie has it all, all wrapped up into a great story that will keep you rolling and crying. I'm surprised no one has seen or even heard of this movie, but I say it's good. Oh well, just watch it, and you'll agree with me, I guarantee it.