Live! (2007)
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Reviews Counted: 16
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 9
Uneven media satire on how far TV will go to secure ratings. Unfortunately it's neither as funny or as sharp as it hopes to be.
Average Rating: N/A
Critic Reviews: 2
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 1
Uneven media satire on how far TV will go to secure ratings. Unfortunately it's neither as funny or as sharp as it hopes to be.
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Movie Info
Eva Mendes, Jay Hernandez, and Eric Lively star in a scathing mockumentary/media satire concerning a network executive (Mendes) who pitches a controversial show in which willing contestants participate in a real-life game of Russian Roulette. As the show goes into production, a documentary crew turns their cameras on the production to capture the firestorm of controversy that erupts as the premier date draws ever closer. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Mar 1, 2007 Wide
Dec 1, 2009
Weinstein Company
Cast
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Eva Mendes
Katy Courbet -
David Krumholtz
Rex -
Rob Brown (VI)
Byron -
Katie Cassidy
Jewel -
Jay Hernandez
Pablo -
Eric Lively
Brad -
Monet Mazur
Abalone -
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Rick -
Missi Pyle
Plummy -
Andre Braugher
Don -
Charlotte Ross
Jennifer -
Michelle Krusiec
Dylan -
Tom Wright
Dr. Raymond Boyd -
Patrick Fischler
Trevor -
Robin Paul
Dave
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All Critics (17) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (9) | DVD (2)
It's hard to distinguish between the cynical indifference of the characters and the arrogant nihilism of the film itself.
Top CriticWorth seeing for the slinky, snakelike, sexy and oddly vulnerable performance of Eva Mendes, a star-making role if I've ever seen one.
A surprisingly plausible mockumentary...
There is a big problem in believing any of it, but a certain amount of fun watching television's more ghastly denizens wonder whether murder will improve the ratings. It does.
Mendes (best known as Will Smith's love interest in Hitch) is enjoyably poisonous, making Live! just about worth catching.
This crass, inauthentic mock-doc exposing the evils of reality shows and the venality of TV honchos manages both to bore and insult simultaneously.
However, in a world where reality show formats are beyond parody, this particular gun goes off half-cocked.
Triumphs, humiliation, barmy monologues and temper tantrums - reality television is scarcely in need of parodying. Certainly not from a preachy film like this.
Bill Guttentag's film is one of those shrill and cheery conspiracies on the wilder side of probability. But the black comedy has an infectious pace, and screwy logic.
A sporadically entertaining but uneven media satire that never quite delivers on its clear sense of moral outrage.
Smart, incisive, but not as sharp as it should have been. With a subject this ripe for evisceration, it's a pity to let it off with flesh wounds.
Watchable satire with some nice touches and a strong performance by Eva Mendes, but it's neither as funny, as clever or as original as it thinks it is.
This straight-faced satire of American television raises important issues and is engaging enough to keep us gripped. But the astute commentary peaks too early, then gives way to a finale that's messy in more ways than one.
Mendes' Courbet is all the c-words: clever, cunning, a control freak, cynical; ultimately conformist. Here's another c-word - Cowell, Simon Cowell. Like him, she knows what the public want - before even they know it.
So spake that prescient philosopher Julie Brown: "Just be vague, there's nothing to it."
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[color=darkred][b][i][size=2]U svetu zabave gde su "reality" emisije sve popularnije evo i originalne ideje... [/size][/i]
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[i][size=2]Predsednica ABN network TV kompanije Katy Courbet (Eva Mendes) i reziser dokumentaraca Rex (David Krumholtz) resavaju da stvore najrealisticniju emisiju ikada zamisljenu: RUSKI RULET! Sest takmicara se takmici u klasicnom ruskom ruketu s time sto onaj koji se ubije NE DOBIJA NISTA dok preziveli svi dobijaju po 5 miliona dolara! [/size][/i]
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[i][size=2]Moral!? Koliko vredi zivot!? Sta je najvaznije u zivotu!? Mozda je vreme da se upitate sve to pre gledanja filma... [/size][/i]
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[i][size=2]Nista posebno... ali pogledajte... ako vam je dosadno... Reziser Bill Guttentag je inace oskarovac, ali za dokumentarne filmove - preporucio bih mu da ih se i dalje drzi! [/size][/i]
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[i][size=2]Ocena je od mene 5/10. [/size][/i]
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