Review of Paparazzi

Paparazzi (2004)
5/10
It's not really as bad as you think
29 August 2005
First, I've heard people say that this movie is nothing but self-serving, egotistical Hollywood garbage. And they actually wouldn't be too far of the mark. But, really, can you blame them? Nobody likes paparazzi. How could you? They make a living off the embarrassment and humiliation of others. Their entire occupation is created by being nothing more than high school-esquire gossip-hounds. They are the dredges of society, supplying the bored masses with opium in the form of celebrity pain, and every one in Hollywood has to deal with them. They're like mosquitoes. Can you really blame those crazy folks in Tinseltown if they get annoyed by them? Well, I can't. But it still doesn't help the fact that this movie is magnificently sub-par. It's a fun, improbable B-Movie to watch with a bag of popcorn. The antagonists are all so wonderfully horrible, and you'll love the fact that they all get their's in the end (even if their punishment happens in some legal netherworld where the law is powerfully inept). It also helps that Tom Sizemore is as much of an uncouth ghoul in life as he is in the movie.

The rest of the plot is equally as unrealistic, and the leads aren't really all that powerful. But the B-movie revenge craziness makes up for it. This is not a movie to be taken seriously. At all. So don't watch it like it's supposed to.
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