Shooting Elizabeth (1992)

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

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

This movie was made in 1992, stars Jeff Goldblum and Mimi Rogers, the script is very witty, almost pushing the brink of dark comedy. This is definitely a dialog heavy comedy with smart written all through it. It moves at a wonderful little pace, it almost feels like watching a live stage play, cinematography is simplistic and perfect giving great focus on the actors and letting their performance shine rather than spif it up with drastic camera angles and dramatic lighting. I find many of the lines wonderfully executed with Goldblum's craft, the kind you feel like quoting with friends later on. Commonly unheard of from people i've polled, but highly recommended.

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.

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/

I found the film delightfully funny. I fell in love with Goldblum's style and felt that other roles (e.g. the Fly, the horrible Jurassic Park and the farcical Independence day, and one really bad film whose name I don't recall) never quite matched this one for allowing him to showcase his humor. (the fact that he could even give a whisper of that style to the Fly--a movie tragic enough to provide a difficult medium for any humor--is much to his credit as a naturally funny person). I highly recommend it.