Andrea Compton
This movie is one of those that seems like it has a million different genres! It seems like a dark comedy, then seems like an action film, then seems like a romance, and it is like that through the entire movie. It is 2016 and I have just watched it a couple weeks ago (it's a 1997 movie). I really like the two main actors Cameron Diaz and Ewan McGregor. Holly Hunter is usually good but her character annoyed the hell out of me in this movie. WARNING! SPOILERS!!!! I think this movie could have done without Jackson and O'Reilley, the two "angels" because it seems like it was just kind of thrown into the movie and it seemed out of place most of the time. The angels are supposed to help the two main characters fall in love to be able to get back to Heaven. But sometimes it seemed as if they were evil, and not angels at all. This could be due to the idea of this movie being a dark comedy type, but I thought it was odd and I did not like the characters of the angels at all. Overall, Cameron and Ewan were really good as their characters, if not a bit dramatic at points. Oh well.
Tweekums
Robert Lewis's life seems to be going nowhere; he loses his janitorial job to a robot, gets dumped by his girlfriend and is evicted from his how; meanwhile Celine Naville is living a pampered life; all paid for by her father; Robert's boss. Under normal circumstances they would never even meet but what follows are not normal circumstances. Two angels, O'Reilly and Jackson, have been sent down from heaven to make sure they get together
by whatever means necessary. Robert and Celine's relationship gets off to an unusual start when he kidnaps her after confronting her father. He is possibly the world's worst kidnapper but luckily she is happy to tell him what to do for part of the ransom as she is not happy with her father's suggestion she should work for him. Her father has no intention of paying though and hires O'Reilly and Jackson, who are posing as bounty hunters, to get Celine back and kill Robert! Of course extreme circumstances start to bring them together; they might still need a push in the right direction though.Anybody who has seen director Danny Boyle's previous films featuring Ewan McGregor may be expecting lots of swearing and violence; there is some but by no means as much as this is a romantic comedy. That doesn't stop Cameron Diaz shooting her suitor in the head while emulating William Tell's famous act or Holly Hunter's O'Reilly getting crushed by a pick-up truck
then carrying on like some angelic terminator. There are plenty of laughs to be had along the way and the cast do a fine job throughout. As well as the two leads Holly Hunter and Delroy Lindo are fun in their roles of the two angels and Ian McNeice is very funny playing it dead straight as the Naville's butler/enforcer! The story itself is silly but that is part of the fun. Overall this is a fun film that may be a little too quirky at times but is still worth watching.
Chris L
If the name of Danny Boyle is often synonym of success, the Englishman is also capable of directing more than mediocre movies such as this A Life Less Ordinary.It relies on a qualitatively low script. Everything is convenient, cliché, the plot unfolds really too linearly and is in the end little interesting. The fantastic touch, more boring than anything, doesn't help either.The Diaz-McGregor works difficultly and struggles to extricate itself from this mess where characters and situations are stereotyped.Even the direction is uninspired, not to mention the soundtrack that is almost ridiculous, which is a shame when speaking of Boyle.It is maybe the worst feature of the director, along with Millions, both movies sharing as a matter of fact the same mystical tone.
kickingswearing
I saw this film in theatres when it had just come out, much abuzz about both Ewan McGregor and Cameron Diaz. While not wholly disappointed by the film, I was left stunned. Two days prior to seeing this I had just watched on television Two of a Kind with John Travolta and Olivia Newton John. I had read reviews saying this was an original story(ALLO) and a breath of fresh air. This is not so, I urge you to read the summary for Two of a Kind(don't see the film unless you like 80's garbage films) and see if the 2 contrast(they don't). While I'm all for a well scripted and acted romantic comedy, don't profess originality unless you know it to be so. I am still a huge Danny Boyle(Sunsine one of my personal favourites) and Ewan McGregor(Renton all time anti-hero) fan, this film just helps to remind me that no one is ever perfect.
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