Year:
1999
Studio:
20th Century Fox/Phoenix Pictures
Movie:
2/5
DVD:
1/5
Teaser
Don't go into the water! Actually, it's ok to go in if you bring a
cow...
A man is bitten in half swimming in a lake. A large tooth is found. Is
it a prehistoric sea monster? Paleontologist (or whatever she is) Kelly
Scott (Bridget Fonda) is sent to investigate. Really her
boss/ex-boyfriend just wants her out of the way so he can screw her
coworker/best friend. Anyway, once she's there she meets up with Forest
Ranger Jack Wells (Bill Pullman) and Sheriff Hank Keough (Brendan
Gleeson) who want to stop the thing. Just when she thinks this is going
to be a routine bug hunt, millionaire wacko Hector Cyr (Oliver Platt)
arrives to "swim" with the sea monster, if you know what I mean.
Movie
"Lake Placid" is one of those big monster horror movies that is not
horror enough to be scary and not funny enough to be comedy. It just
sits in this trough where it's boring. I guess the first time I saw
this movie it wasn't so bad but a couple of years later and it's quite
bad. David E Kelley, however good he may be as a television writer (and
for some reason I don't watch his shows -- just not my genres I guess),
he loses something in this screenplay. I don't know what he was going
for and if that's the case then this movie missed.
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Actors
Bill Pullman. Good actor that can carry roles that have the kind of wry
humor that he plays in this movie. No complaints there. Bridget Fonda.
Maybe I'm just getting old but she does look better and better as I see
her more. I keep thinking she has a funny nose and she's fairly good
with that handicap. :-) Oliver Platt I've gotten to respect more and
more. Especially when he was on the failed "Queens Supreme" courtroom
drama television show. I first remember him in "The Three Musketeers"
where it was all "ooh, Oliver Platt is in this movie" and I was "Oliver
who?"
DVD
The movie is in letterbox format, which sucks. There is a theatrical
trailer and three television commercials. Cast and crew bios at least
are narrative rather than short biographies with a listing of credits.
There is also a 5-1/2 minute promotional featurette. Overall not
impressed.
Recommendations
For goddess' sake, don't watch this movie. It's not horribly bad but it
still has very little going for it. |