While in
prison a con man fall in love with a fellow inmate, he will do anything to be
with him.
This movie
is a strange proposition. At his heart is a rom com with just one key
distinctive factor, the main couple is composed by two men and here lies the
problem, not with the concept of an homosexual rom com of course, but with the
execution.
Most of the
movie fun stuff amount to “See there are two grown men holding hands!” and
stuff like that and even if I can admit that such a proposition is certainly edgy
enough that in USA the movie only had a very limited distribution, it gets old
really fast.
The
romantic part also doesn’t work. Jim Carrey character is too unsympathetic with
his endless and doomed get rich quick scheming and his constant lying.
I think
that the filmmakers knew this and that’s why this movie got a voiceover which
increases the detachment that we feel from the story making it feel like a dark
fable.
There are
funny bits I admit and the various ploy that Steven Russel, Jim Carrey
character, uses to escape prison are ingenious and amazing, probably the best
part of the movie especially considering that this a real life story and so he
actually did all that stuff. An impressive tenacity indeed.
In the end
is not that bad.
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