Pretty Good

Expected more

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Paparazzi is a film that was worked on by Mel Gibson. I often see it at flea markets and wanted to try it out. It was surprisingly good. A solid revenge film.Bo Laramie is an up and coming action star. He gets badgered by a troupe of tryhard members of the paparazzi, and after multiple incursions based upon their stalking they go too far and cause Bo and his family to almost die in a car wreck.This film has some great writing, dialogue, and the story is believable and pretty original. The acting is good and it has an all-star cast. The musical score is decent. There isn't much action, per se and the little you get isn't all that great, but this is a revenge film that focuses more on manipulation than the Gung Ho, kill these mofo's style.Paparazzi is smart and entertaining. It definitely isn't as good as most other revenge films, but it's something different and I liked it. Paparazzi gets an 8/10.

America's newest millionaire superstar is handsome carpenter turned action hero Cole Hauser (as Bo Laramie), star of the mega-hit "Adrenaline Force". Though swarmed by fans and "Paparazzi" in public, Mr. Hauser is privately a very nice family man, devoted to loving wife Robin Tunney (as Abby) and cute son Blake Bryan (as Zach). Probably, in a few years Hauser will be trading them in for a young supermodel, but wait for that to be revealed in the sequel… Presently, Hauser is hounded by sleazy tabloid photographers like Tom Sizemore (as Rex Harper) who publish nude pictures and report Hauser's had a "penile enhancement." They print pictures of little Bryan without permission (or payment). Worst of all, they stage a "Princess Diana" car crash to threaten the lives of Ms. Tunney and Bryan. Since punching the photographer in the nose doesn't work, Hauser decides to get rough with Mr. Sizemore and his scummy pals.Who could better mediate the war between sleazy photographers and snotty celebrities than ace detective Dennis "Columbo" Farina (as Burton). While Mr. Farina sniffs around mysteriously dropping dead photographers, Bryan remains in a coma, director Paul Abascal films "Adrenaline Force 2", and Hauser meets producer Mel Gibson in anger management. Matthew McConaughey, Chris Rock, and Vince Vaughn are other actors appearing in small roles.*** Paparazzi (9/3/04) Mel Gibson : Paul Abascal ~ Cole Hauser, Robin Tunney, Dennis Farina, Tom Sizemore

It's surprising that no one has made this film before now, because it's not only a great idea, I'd bet it's a fantasy that many huge stars have had. Hell, it's a fantasy I have as an everyday schlub when people bug me--or even when I'm in crowds and people are pushy.The odd thing, with the talent and money involved, is that Paparazzi has the feel of a made-for-television film. And one look at director Paul Abascal's resume gives us a likely reason--this is his only feature film as helmer so far, although he has close to twenty television credits on his resume, plus an impressive list of titles behind him as a Hollywood hairstylist (which causes me to try to remember the hairstyles in Paparazzi . . . but I just don't tend to pay that much attention to them, unless they're something pleasantly weird like Diva Zappa's hair as "The Drill Girl" in Children of the Corn 5: Fields of Terror (1998)).But as a made-for-television film, Paparazzi is excellent, and as a major release, it's very good. While the story may be a fairly pedestrian tale of revenge--albeit a touch more clever in the end--what makes Paparazzi excel is the performances. Cole Hauser is perfect as the slightly bewildered "normal guy" suddenly catapulted to stardom. Few people can do sleazeball better than Tom Sizemore and Daniel Baldwin; they're at their best here. And by this point, Dennis Farina is such a master of playing both a cop and a thug that I expect to hear on the news that he's arrested himself.

This film was quite entertaining, i have watched 10 films on sky in the past 4 days and this was one of the better ones, the story wasn't fully true but the paparazzi do hassle celebrities and in this film where the paparazzi harm Bo Laramie's family he wants revenge and does this extremely cleverly, this film was not totally true to life but is beleiveable, the killings/accidents are realistic. The acting in this film is very good and you even get to see Bo doing a scene in a movie that was made up for the film which looked extremely real and very convincing. All in all if you want a family film with some suspense this is a film for you, i really enjoyed it and after watching the first half an hour did not want to turn it off.Entertaining = 7/10, Interesting = 7/10