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New Century of Cinema
DOWSE Guide to the
Movies
by Tony Lee editor of
Pigasus
Press
Mickey Blue Eyes
Director: Kelly Makin
98 minutes (PG) widescreen 1.95:1 Warner
review by Tony Lee
Hugh Grant doing his usual English buffoon in America is about the only reason to see
this romanticised gangster comedy. He plays an auctioneer who proposes to a mobster's
daughter (Jeanne Tripplehorn, wholly miscast, I thought) and only then does he find out
that her family are Sicilians with influence over incompetent deliverymen and an
interest in clever money laundering rackets.
It's Married To The Mob with role reversal, with a double bluff ending filched
from The Sting and, honestly, not very funny. James Caan mugs appropriately as
the gun-toting father of the bride, and there's the expected quota of laughs at the
expense of Grant's accent and loony Mafioso killers. Analyze This was rather
better and - certainly - had far more original material.
DVD extras: standard. Original trailer, scene access in 33 chapters, the
director's commentary, choice of four subtitled languages.
Buy this title from Blackstar
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