Bullseye! (1990)

Truly Dreadful Film

Beautiful, moving film.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

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

Caine and Moore's job was to convince us that their characters had con-artist identical doubles. They failed but both seemed to have had a hoot. It's like an overlong one-night-only stage farce: plentiful costume changes, loads of props, bad jokes, and a cut-price musical score. Having three old pals working together on a film it's easily imagined they would have fun and this comes across in the exchanges. One can imagine there's probably a stagehand at the ready to pop the cork and pour the champagne when Michael Winner shouted "cut". Directed to his everlasting shame, Bullseye begs a viewing occasionally, even if just to see how a film budget of £15,000,000 can be so easily burned.

Yes its as funny as a burning burns unit but on the other hand it isn't 'Large'Bullseye is the kind of film that lovers of the truly terrible will relish.Its got bad everything, accents, acting, directing, script. Its like the Superman 4 of comedy.I remember it being released at the cinema, how did that happen? Its probably made by Cannon so they could at least get it into their own flea pits (god bless em)I'd love the DVD. If you like this film may I recommend Sextette.

One evening,while channel surfing, my friend and I came upon this film on TV. In its own way, it was more astonishing than anything by Kurosawa, David Fincher or Takeshi Kitano. We simply couldn't believe what we were watching. We sat there as dumbstruck and as open mouthed as if we were watching Elvis doing his shopping in the local Sainsburys store. How could any film be such a complete failure? Even awful films usually have some saving grace, some ray of light, that stops your viewing being a completely worthless experience - one good performance or one funny line or even just some good scenery. 'Bullseye!', however, exists entirely in a vacuum; in a cinematic black hole. The script: No good. The acting: No good. The direction: No good. The editing: No good. Even the music: No good. Yet, later, I realised that the ray of light that I'd been looking for was actually in the fact that the film was such a total, glorious misfire and, if one watches it from that perspective, it's a wonderful film. The next time it came on TV I made sure to tape it and every so often I watch it again, in awe at its uselessness. It's nothing against Michael Winner personally. I'm sure he's a lovely bloke but, as a film maker, he makes a magnificent restaurant critic.

OK its not a oscar winner.its a Michael Winner.but this comedy has a great double act in Caine and Moore infact this is the first time i seen Moore do a comedy and he is quite excellent.a good supporting cast the script is more carry on than anything else and whats wrong with that.id sooner watch this than Trainspotting.