Dom Robinson reviews
Mickey Blue Eyes They've created a mobster
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Cert: Cat.no: D 0C2565
Running time: 98 minutes
Year: 1999
Pressing: 2000
Region(s): 2, PAL
Chapters: 33 plus extras
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
Languages: English
Subtitles: 5 languages
Widescreen: 1.85:1
16:9-Enhanced: Yes
Macrovision: Yes
Disc Format: DVD 9
Price: £19.99
Extras : Scene index, Trailer, Cast and Crew, Director's Commentary
Director:
(Mickey Blue Eyes, National Lampoon's Senior Trip )
Producers:
Elizabeth Hurley and Charles Mulvehill
Screenplay:
Adam Scheinman and Robert Kuhn
Music:
Cast:
Michael Felgate: Hugh Grant
Mickey Blue Eyes Hugh Grant ),
an auctioneer for a company that's not doing quite as well as it should,
after he becomes, literally, married to the mob after just three months
of dating teacher Gina Vitale (Jeanne Tripplehorn ). Her father is Frank
Vitale (James Caan , sending up his Godfather role), the head
of an Italian mob family crime syndicate.
After the heavies get involved and sort out Michael's ensuing art delivery
problems and then begin to influence the auctions, what results is a comedy
that could easily have fallen flat on his face, but it doesn't - presuming
Hugh Grant makes you laugh with his constant upper-class twit facade. It
does for me and there are plenty other moments where comedy timing is perfect,
even if the thought of Grant getting into such a situation is highly unlikely
as it's carried out very well indeed.
The film is presented in its original 1.85:1 widescreen ratio and is anamorphic.
It looks almost-perfect with just a few print scratches early on.
The average bitrate is a steady 5.91Mb/s.
The sound is in Dolby Digital 5.1, but isn't used to great effect - only a
few scenes where gunshots are involved mainly.
Extras :
Chapters :
Languages and Subtitles :
And there's more... : Trailer , a Director's Commentary and the Cast and Crew
is precisely that - a listing of the main actors, not the filmographies dealy
it infers.
Menu :
Overall, this was a more entertaining film than I thought it would be, even
if there's a cheesy ending involved. I presume it's also the last film that
will come from Simian Films as it was - the company run by both Hugh Grant
and Elizabeth Hurley - since that have split up.
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Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2000.
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