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Fatal Beauty

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Detective Rita Rizzoli (Whoopi Goldberg) is accustomed to donning costumes and going undercover to nail crooks. But she'll be required to use all of her get-ups and more when a major cocaine ring is suspected of turning out a potent new strain of the drug, called "Fatal Beauty." With the help of her partner, Jimenez (Ruben Blades), and a former bodyguard for a local cartel (Sam Elliott), Rita will do whatever it takes to find out who's dealing Fatal Beauty and stop them.
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Janet Maslin New York Times 05/20/2003
2/5
The wisecracks and the swaggering are as unrelieved as the film's almost comically ecstatic gunplay. Someone must have figured audiences like things this way. Go to Full Review Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times 01/01/2000
3/4
Goldberg's best work since The Color Purple. Go to Full Review Rita Kempley Washington Post 01/01/2000
Bloody, boring and pandering, is as poisonous as the drug trade it pretends to defame. Go to Full Review Matt Brunson Film Frenzy 06/09/2025
1.5/4
Fatal Beauty is one more for the rubbish bin, a lackluster action-comedy that was planned as a vehicle for Cher until she elected to do Moonstruck instead (good call!). Go to Full Review Nick Rogers Midwest Film Journal 06/07/2025
1.5/5
A dance floor-clearing remix of "Beverly Hills Cop" that's neither funny nor exciting, stops dead cold for a disastrous dramatic monologue, and rests so far outside of Whoopi Goldberg's wheelhouse that you'll wonder how she ever invented her wheel at all. Go to Full Review Rene Jordan El Nuevo Herald (Miami) 07/06/2022
I'd rather see Whoopi Goldberg in a mediocre movie than not see her at all, but now they are asking too much of me, and running my patience thin. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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thiago S @Thiagostone Mar 15 Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom See more alan g @agenser 09/19/2024 Beauty and Whoopass don't go together. Miss. See more L S @LS253 08/18/2023 It's almost impossible to not love Goldberg doing what she does best as a wise cracking cop with a heart of gold. Enjoyable and entertaining. Nothing more nothing less. It's really disappointing when almost everyone envonved in a film says they regret it. Especially when they achieve exactly what they set out to do. See more Greg W @RT15938922 05/23/2021 Total Junk Movie,has to be Whoopi's worst movie ever---Very poorly done, and it understandably bombed at the box office,don't waste your time See more 04/25/2020 A very thrilling action-comedy with Harold Faltermeyer's wonderful electronical score! Beautiful actress game Goldberg and Elliot. And get out racism! 10 / 10 See more 09/18/2017 Sam Elliot...need I say more. See more Read all reviews
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Tom Holland

Director

Whoopi Goldberg

Rita Rizzoli

Sam Elliott

Mike Marshak

Rubén Blades

Carl Jimenez

Harris Yulin

Conrad Kroll

John P. Ryan

Lt. Kellerman

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Fatal Beauty

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Movie Info

Synopsis Detective Rita Rizzoli (Whoopi Goldberg) is accustomed to donning costumes and going undercover to nail crooks. But she'll be required to use all of her get-ups and more when a major cocaine ring is suspected of turning out a potent new strain of the drug, called "Fatal Beauty." With the help of her partner, Jimenez (Ruben Blades), and a former bodyguard for a local cartel (Sam Elliott), Rita will do whatever it takes to find out who's dealing Fatal Beauty and stop them.
Director
Tom Holland
Producer
Leonard C. Kroll
Screenwriter
Hilary Henkin, Dean Riesner
Production Co
Metro Goldwyn Mayer, CST Telecommunications
Rating
R
Genre
Crime, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 16, 2008
Box Office (Gross USA)
$10.8M
Runtime
1h 42m
Sound Mix
Surround
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