Shooting Elizabeth
Shooting Elizabeth
| 18 November 1992 (USA)
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Before a man can kill his nagging wife as planned, she disappears and he's charged with murder.

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Hellen

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Afouotos

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

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Fairaher

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

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Keeley Coleman

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

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jotix100

Mineral water executive Howard Pigeon has married the wrong woman. Elizabeth, his beautiful wife, is irritating, opinionated, and everything he hates a woman to be. Howard wants to get rid of her in the worst possible way. His plan takes him back to the hotel where he and Elizabeth spent their honeymoon in Spain.Walter begins planning how he will kill Elizabeth and dispose of her body to make it the perfect crime, the only thing is, little does he know that Elizabeth has her plans of her own. The night Walter has chosen to commit his crime, Elizabeth disappears. Immediately, he becomes the prime suspect, something he wanted to avoid, at all cost.Director Baz Taylor, who has worked extensively on television, tried his hand at this black comedy, that unfortunately doesn't go anywhere. The viewers are asked to accept Jeff Goldblum's larger than life performance as the husband that has had it. Mr. Goldblum is all over the place trying to give life to Walter. Mimi Rogers, an actress that should be seen more, underplays Elizabeth. Both actors appear to be acting in different films, probably because of the direction Mr. Taylor conceived for the picture. Both Mr. Goldblum and Ms. Rogers are totally wasted.The largely Spanish supporting cast don't have much to do.

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Boba_Fett1138

This movie is rather unknown (only 85 vote on IMDb at the moment) and it should stay unknown.The movie is very simple. It's very predictable and for a comedy it has very few laughs. Also the style itself is simple and about as average as it can be. The story is not really good and doesn't always flow or makes sense and is filled with some rather big plot-holes.Jeff Goldblum on the other hand is good and comically talented and so is Burt Kwouk's (Cato from the "Pink Panther" series) in his small but fun role. But quite frankly all of it is not good enough to save this movie.It is no disaster but it's not recommendable either.4/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

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Captain Ed

This is one of the films which cause my wife to hide my remote from me, so that she doesn't have to endure any more of my weird movie selections. After this film, I have more sypmathy for her.** Some Spoilers**Normally I like both Jeff Goldblum and Mimi Rogers, but in this film Goldblum annoyed the hell out of me. His stream-of-consciousness, stammering blather appears in almost every scene. His mannered performance serves to attract attention to Goldblum and not the story itself. Not only would this repulse normal people from ever conversing with him, it feels like a fakey way to produce internal dialogue. We spend 90% of the film thinking that Pigeon is more of a Weasel than anything else, and suddenly we're supposed to say 'Awwwww' as they hug and kiss and make up (twice) at the end. Both the audience (and his wife) are supposed to conveniently forget that he planned her cold-blooded execution and only missed out on doing it because she abruptly left him first.Mimi Rogers lends her glowing screen presence to this limp noodle of a film, but her straightforward portrayal unfortunately accentuates the weirdness of Goldblum's; either both should have played it straight or both should have jumped off the deep end together. As a result, she winds up looking like she's waiting for Goldblum to take a breath at mid-bite (on the scenery, natch) to quickly inject her dialogue.Very little fits in what should have been a taut and funny thriller of sorts. The detective is made to appear as a buffoon when he is actually GETTING EVERYTHING RIGHT. All Pigeon does with his friends is berate them for not doing enough for him, and they act like they agree with him. His wife goes off on a hike in terrain so rough that a guide is required, but then we see her at a perfectly accessible campsite wearing walking shorts and a flannel shirt, not to mention the platoon of policemen clad only in uniform following Pigeon up the trail. We're supposed to be amused when minor characters are interviewed on TV saying how strangely Pigeon acted -- after everyone assumes his wife is dead -- but he WAS acting strangely, so strangely that you wonder why no one reported him to the police while he was staying at the resort.It's not an awful, 'Battlefield Earth' disaster, but it's not good at all. I give it a 3.

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lphelan

Jeff Goldblum in the role he was born to play: Howard Pigeon. Scheming to escape from his unhappy marriage and talking animatedly to himself, Goldblum's delivery of stuttering gesticulation is perfect, eerily resonant of Mamet's use of repetition and rhythmic logic. Pigeon is blissfully unaware of his impending doom as he plots and seethes. Mimi Rodgers is brilliant as his wife and foil Elizabeth Pigeon. The film is strangely set in Spain, with much of it shot along the Spanish coast and in the mountains. Well much of the film follows the finest abusurdist traditions, the ending brings a surprising amount of emotional weight. Worth seeing for Goldblum's performance alone (a strange idea indeed).

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