He eventually comes out the best rounded character in the fractured storytelling. He uses that chance to provide the film with a backbone. `Life' has Lawrence with the quieter role. He's terribly funny, and yet able to win your heart with a depth most comedians don't have. Martin Lawrence shares many of the same attributes as Murphy. I really think he's set for brighter things. With each new movie, Murphy grows as an actor. But he can also be very dramatically convincing.
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Murphy is a very talented actor, and this movie makes you wish he would try a straight drama for once. The greatest gift `Life' gives to Murphy is a chance to show off range. `Holy Man' was an unmitigated disaster, but one that didn't effect Murphy with any real damage. Dolittle' was a smash, but a career setback to say the least.
Murphy is coming off a uniquely horrific year. As the main characters, the two comedians prove just how valuable they are. You either love stars Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence, or you don't. `Life' is also a film that defies much criticism. It tries to make you pee your pants with its jokes, and yet slap your emotions around with the drama. `Life' is the millionth attempt at warm-hearted comedy. It's a slippery slope to juggle the two genres. You leave the theater thinking `It was funny enough, why couldn't it just stay silly?' My friends, I'm with you on every page. It's a practice as old as time in Hollywood. I cannot even begin to count how many `comedies' I have sat through that try to reach for the `timeless' formula by interjecting some lame dramatics to engage the audience even more than the comedy ever could. I thoroughly enjoyed this picture, realizing early on that it was a very serious movie wrongly hyped as a comedy. Comedies are rarely as dirty and sweaty as this movie. Life is well-mounted and the sets are as convincing as any I've seen. Let's not overlook an interesting small role expertly understated by Ned Beatty, and the charm of Bokeem Woodbine as Can't Get Right. Note that when these characters are shown as old men, Murphy actually becomes an old man, Lawrence is still a young man in oldster's make-up. Lawrence is almost as good, but he does labor a bit with the dramatic parts, seeming a bit uncomfortable shedding his comic bent. I was surprised at how good Murphy is in this flick.Not one of my favorites, he convinces as he ages and grows under the burden his character carries, that of an entire life stolen from him. These are pictures that provide comic overtones to people struggling to get through a very serious and overwhelming event: war, contemplated suicide, and in the case of Life, life imprisonment. There have been some great ones that do this, and we mistakenly classify them as comedies. Once you let that expectation go, this is a great movie! It succeeds as a drama with comic tone.
The mind boggles!Īnyway, for those who have not seen "Life", go and see, you won't regret watching it.Īfter reading the user comments on this movie, it appears that the main complaint is that it is not the rollicking laugh-a-minute comedy that fans of the two leads expected. "Austin Powers: The Spy who Shagged Me" and "Big Daddy" definitely fall in the latter.
"Life" which is struggling to reach the $65M mark falls into the former category. Moreover, there are films which fall short in quality, that can generate $100M+ for substandard, regurgitated, "comedy". Please no more films like Beverly Hills Flop 3 and Holy Man!įinally, a general point, which needs to be addressed, is that it is so strange how comedy films with far more substance, fail to do well financially.
I just hope that Eddie Murphy continues in this same vein. That said, Eddie Murphy and his worthy partner, Martin Lawrence successfully produce a comedy worth watching. It is possible that he is caught up in his own 'identity creation' of "Eddie Murphy: Comedy first, drama.maybe not!" There are no doubts regarding Eddie Murphy's acting ability, yet sometimes I think he sacrifices the script and his role for a cheap laugh when it's not really necessary. I believe had Mr Murphy decided to look really deeply into the role of Rayford Gibson, it could have been a possible "Oscar" role for him. If this film had a flaw, I think this was it. With a story line as good as this one, it was up to Eddie to see how he could develop it. Two adjectives that I have not been able to use for an Eddie Murphy film for a long time.
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