Not a Bad Story but awful acting apart from Mike Myers

Rating: Null/10 (3 May 2004)

Mike Myers was far to good to be apart of the dire idea of a film. It just seemed to much like boogie nights. The story of 54 is all about a young man who dreams of being a somebody and becomes very famous and begins to strain underneath the pressure. Isn't that what happens to Dirk Diggler in the days of disco fever in Boogie nights. How much people don't want to believe this it's true. Ryan Philippe is a very good actor but he is also a bad one. Antitrust, White Squall and the excellent The Way of the Gun are his only great performances but the others he just tries to hard to give a great performance and it shows in 54. Salma Hayek is not need at all as did Neve Campbell whose career was dying with the Scream sequels as this just helped her on the way. Mike Myers proves that he can act just as much as he can make people laugh and was the only thing good about this film and was the only reason it probably got made.
Disappointing film that tried to jump the bandwagon but couldn't even hold on.