Average Rating: 5.2/10
Reviews Counted: 55
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 31
Uneven performances, formulaic.
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 6
Uneven performances, formulaic.
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Can a homophobic former rent-a-cop find happiness learning to sing with a man in a dress? That's the big question in this comedy-drama. A retired security guard (Robert De Niro), deeply conservative and set in his ways, falls victim to a debilitating stroke. His doctors prescribe an extensive program of physical therapy once he's released from the hospital, including singing lessons to help him regain his full powers of speech. As it turns out, there's a vocal instructor living next door to the
Nov 24, 1999 Wide
Aug 15, 2001
MGM Home Entertainment
All Critics (63) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (26) | Rotten (31) | DVD (8)
Outdated and schematic, this two-character melodrama belongs to the 1970s, when transsexuals were "novel" dramatic persona; even the gifted Philip Seymour Hoffman is defeated by the writing and direction.
Its weary clichés and flat comic bits are apparently supposed to be fresh and insightful.
You need a pair of huge, hairy ones to make a picture this bad and call it "Flawless."
"Flawless" is contrived and overly schematic, but De Niro and Hoffman are such good actors that it never slips into pat sentiment.
So awful it just might put an end to Hollywood's hypocritical infatuation with men in drag as symbols of its own supposedly liberated sexual attitudes.
Any humanity in the script is diluted to the point of nonexistence by Schumacher's refusal to allow any of his characters to develop beyond the stereotype stage.
This character-driven drama is a charming, often-funny story about two lost souls finding solace and friendship in each other.
For what it's worth, this could be Schumacher's best film.
...a well-balance work that captures the often jaw dropping performances by the dancers.
What's worse than a film directed by Joel Schumacher? How about a film written and directed by Joel Schumacher?
De Niro and Hoffman deliver the goods, but they are lost within a cockamamie, violent subplot that pulls down everything.
Philip Seymour Hoffman's master-class performance as troubled drag queen Rusty sadly goes to waste in this laughable film. "Rusty" stands as the lone well-written character in this pathetic "drama". FLAWLESS's terrible directing, editing and writing, as well as its inappropriate soundtrack (a peppy samba for chase
December 12, 2009Super Reviewer
Contrived nonsense. Robert De Niro & Philip Seymour Hoffman are better than this. Joel Schumacher however, is not.
September 29, 2009Super Reviewer
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