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Paparazzi (2004)

September. 03,2004
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5.7
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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.

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CrawlerChunky
2004/09/03

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

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Portia Hilton
2004/09/04

Blistering performances.

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Fatma Suarez
2004/09/05

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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Bob
2004/09/06

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.

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blrnani
2004/09/07

(spoiler alerts) This film must be a matter of wish fulfillment for so many celebrities. We are all familiar with the depths to which the paparazzi are willing to sink, while using the excuse that "I'm only doing my job!" and I have often wondered how they would feel if their targets did the same thing to them. Well this film plays that premise out. Things start off mildly enough, with the accidental death of one of the paparazzi group that is hounding a young up and coming celebrity and provoked an accident that injured his wife and left his young son in a coma. Indeed our hero's basic decency comes out as he actually tries to save the paparazzi biker hanging off the edge of a cliff. But with his life literally hanging in the actor's hand, the arrogant photographer who is accustomed to hiding behind and abusing the protections afforded by the law unwisely starts hurling threats, I wonder how many people in the same position would resist the temptation to say bye-bye and let go. From that point on, the actor decides to take a proactive stance, playing on their individual weaknesses and widespread loathing of the gutter press. The way it all plays out provides much guilty pleasure for the audience and I am very surprised the film did so poorly at the box-office - looks like an ultra-PC hatchet job was done on it (while murder and mayhem run rampant in popular blockbusters). Don't get me wrong, it's not a great movie and the acting is a bit wooden on occasion, but it's a film that's well worth a look, in the vein of the "Death Wish" series and a great many westerns.

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Raul Faust
2004/09/08

Paparazzi is an original movie about a man who is stalked by some jerk paparazzi and decides to do his own revenge, killing one by one (there were 4 of them).Cole Hauser was able to be a nice man in the beginning and then turned into a killing spree desperately looking for revenge. The writers were kinda smart in the way they described Bo Lamarie's personality, which turns the movie into one of those where you like the killer and wants him to kill whoever he wants to. Much like a Stockholm syndrome I'd say.And of course here we get to remember Britney Spears' paparazzi's problems back in 2007 and as far as I remember, her paparazzi were much like Bo Laramie's. Totally worth watching and I recommend for everyone PS: don't ever touch a man's family.

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Brandt Sponseller
2004/09/09

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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amabiliscasa
2004/09/10

CONTAINS SPOILERSAh, Paparazzi - where to start? So bad it's good. Entertainment in the form of Hollywood whining over it's lot in life - to be forever dogged by photographers - O NOEZ!!! Even I, a non-celebrity got the point of this celluloid tale: "Paparazzi bad! Movie stars picked on! Kill all the photographers!"As bad as the paparazzi are, not every stinking one of them are the bloodsuckers that this film portrays them to be. These photographers were CRIMINALS. Just because a man carries a camera for a living does not mean that he's got a warrant for his arrest out for illegal possession of weapons, rape, etc. Give me a break. And if they're earning so much from their ambulance-chasing, why do they still all live like pigs in squalor? BECAUSE PAPARAZZI ARE EVIL CHILD KILLERS, REMEMBER?The movie star (handsome-enough and little else Cole Hauser) is portrayed as a fresh-scrubbed, corn-fed farm-boy who had just made it big and is suddenly, mercilessly hounded by the press. The photographers apparently are willing to do anything to get a picture, even kill the source of their income, said maligned film star. A number of little details were there to make us sympathize with the celebrity. 1) He comes from the mid-west, and he's just made it big. 2) He's a family man with strong values. 3) He drives a modest car and lives in a modest home. 4) He's super nice to almost everyone, including the coach of his son's soccer team and the young grocery store clerk.This film is basically Hollywood's revenge - everything bad about the paparazzi is magnified (because yes, I agree, they certainly are bad) and everything decent about the film stars is thrown up in our face (he just wants to watch his son's soccer game! The photographer is threatening his cherub-faced boy! O woe!) I liked the celebrity character until he began plotting or allowing the death's of the paparazzi. Yes, they were scumbags. Yes, they deserved to be behind bars - maybe even dead. But since when does a movie star have the right to take justice into his own hands? Bo goes a little crazy, starts making like Rambo in real life and before we know it, every one of the shutter-bugs is sleeping with the fishes. The last shot of the movie shows our noble hero smiling away at the flashing cameras, reveling in his fame - content now that all the OMGEVIL!photographers have been done away with. There's no business like show business...

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