Paparazzi
Paparazzi
PG-13 | 03 September 2004 (USA)
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A rising Hollywood actor decides to take personal revenge against a group of four persistent photographers to make them pay for almost causing a personal tragedy involving his wife and son.

Reviews
Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.
Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.
PeterMitchell-506-564364 Okay, this may be pretentious in the least, and taken way too far, it's idea of a rising actor being hounded by those pesky photographers was bound to surface as a movie. But that's where the fun lies, the exaggeration of story from it's idea, especially for revenge fans, as seeing how far Cole Hauser's character (an upcoming actor playing a upcoming actor, how ironic) can be pushed, before retaliating. He punches out one Paparazzi, creating some bad exposure for himself. Underneath, this is a thing a lot of actors would love to do, I gather. In reality, a lot of stars must of been feeling that certain pinch, relating with this, at it's premiere, where coincidentally, the movie takes off here, as Hauser, and his family walk the red carpet, a startling experience for any rising star. He's the new focus of Sizemore and his Papparazzi goons, who soon turn his perfect life into a nightmare of harassment which eventuates into a close call with death, a car accident in which wife (Robin Tunney) is nearly killed. Now the fires of revenge are lit that pitt Hauser against his harassers where he exacts his own form of personal justice, a methodical plan in which each of the four die, which you never know how, until it's happens, where you underestimate the smarts of this character, or may'be he has you thinking, how could be capable of such genius. Actors aren't the smartest people out there. Although it's way off the mark, leaving the realms of reality, Paparazzi is a fun flick, that takes the p..s out of this people in terms of their deaths, which hopefully must of angered some. It also takes the mickey of some of it's actors, whose careers are fading, where a couple of real ones, are used amongst this fictional telling, one such actor of course, being Mel Gibson (who co produced this as well) sitting outside an anger management office. What a send up, truly the comedic highpoint of this small minded film, that's no blockbuster, after only a one week running in Adelaide. Hauser, Wings's son is an intriguing choice in the lead.
Bob_the_Hobo Gotta love Tom Sizemore. Every film he does, no matter how low budget, no matter how big budget, he's just a fantastic actor. The same can be said of the newer Cole Hauser, who gives it his all in "Papparazzi".Big-time movie star Bo Laramie (Hauser) is being stalked by Rex Harper (Sizemore) and his group of reporters (Kevin Gage, Tom Hollander, and Daniel Baldwin), which eventually leads to a breathtaking accident that injures his wife (Robin Tunney) and son. Instead of helping Laramie, Harper and his crew take pictures of the accident and publicize it to make Laramie and family look ignorant and stupid. An angry Laramie then takes the law into his own hands and takes revenge on the reporters.What a movie! I loved it. A great tale of revenge, and one of Sizemore's best performances. He just played an outstanding sleaze. Hauser was great too, but it was really Sizemore's movie. See it for him. The rest of the cast, including Dennis Farina as a Detective, is also great. The other reporters echo Sizemore's sleaze. Not to mention a cool slew of celebrity cameos, including Vince Vaughn and Mel Gibson.All in all, a fantastic movie. Definitely check this one out.
board-5 Entertanig crime-thriller with important message,and feels like actually also for those are in the title,this will makes them think how to work in the future.There is a cop in the story,who is very smart,but some of the users do not understand all of the twists,and we actually have some mild twists.This film works as dark comedy,but decent for that in all terms,good acting,script,and short roles for famous actors.All of us waited this movie,maybe is not all of us will tells the truth honestly,but this film was a good lesson as warning for those does not respect you all the time,in any way it would be important to others.7/10-has interesting elements,and message.
Brandt Sponseller 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.
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