Overrated, over-hyped, over and out!

Rating: 1/10 (9 November 2007)

I saw a free screening of American "GAGster" and it was worth every penny. Not that I was expecting much. Ridley Scott hasn't directed anything other than garbage since 1982. (Blade Runner.) Russell Crowe's and Denzel Washington's last good performances were in 1999. (The Insider and Hurricane, respectively.) Still, this was a much bigger mess than anticipated. Crowe's accent can only be described as "Crocodile Dundee Goes to Harlem." And Washington continues to sleepwalk through every role--was he REALLY hypnotized in that awful remake of "The Manchurian Candidate"? And why does Josh Brolin sport a mullet, facial hair, and leisure suit straight out of "Boogie Nights" in 1968? I could go on, but why bother? If this is what passes for a good Hollywood popcorn movie these days, maybe the Writer's Strike isn't such a bad thing.