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Carla is a hard of hearing and rather insecure secretary
in a contracts company. When her boss instructs her to employ
herself an assistant (you can tell this is fiction, can't
you!), she approaches the task like a dating agency. Paul
turns out to be a criminal straight out of prison. When some
old "friends" materialise to demand money from him, Paul arranges
to work in their club until he has paid off his debt. However,
old habits die hard. Carla finds herself dragged by Paul into
discovering the villains' current scheme, and relieving them
of their money...
Oh
dear! Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! What, you want more? Sigh!
Okay.
At one time I used to avoid subtitled films like the plague.
That was before I learned non-English speaking dialogues do
not necessarily relate to bad movies. The original Japanese
version of The Ring, and the more recent masterpiece
that is The Eye are two good examples. Unfortunately,
this French film isn't another one. I was obliged to view
Read My Lips in four sittings, as each time I started
to watch it I felt myself slipping into a coma.
This is the kind of experience you need to set your alarm
clock to endure; guaranteed, 10 minutes into it you'll be
snoring contentedly. Dull? Bland? Pointless? Yes, all of those.
There is a sense of going through the motions with no real
drive or purpose in mind. It's difficult to know at whose
feet to lay the blame: scriptwriter, director, cast; they're
probably all equally at fault. It makes you wonder why they
bothered. Bring back Power Ranger-Ninja Turtles, At
least they were a lot about nothing. Read My Lips is
nothing about nothing.
Now
I understand why France was reluctant to sanction military
action in the Gulf. They possess far worse weapons of mass
destruction themselves. Drop a few dozen copies of this DVD
on Baghdad and the entire city would lose the will to live.
Ty
Power
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