Yet another Mrs Doubtfire rerun...

Rating: 1/10 (10 November 2008)

This film is just awful. I cant understand why directors keep recycling this Disney idea that all husbands who get dumped for a richer man like to hang around and watch as their kid grows up. Famke Janssen cant play anything but gold digger sharon stone types and plays the part of the snide Ex wife most excellently. Liam was his usual self somewhat unrealistic role in an unrealistic film based on divorce, lies, ignorance and snide remarks about the past. Maggie Grace simply in her element in this film. While her acting was credible and realistic she just cant play any other role than the spoiled little ignorant brat but it suited this shallow film perfectly. Directors/writers often reach for the divorce plot in a sad means to add depth and meaning to each character in the film but all they do is recycle the Mrs Doubtfire theme. Oh look.. in this one mommy taught daughter how to lie with a smile right in her EX dad's face. How sweet!
PLOT Add an ageing low budget actor to play daddy. Add spoiled clueless two faced child / children. Add gold digger wife full of smarmy snide comments. Get Ex daddy to run about doing crazy unrealistic stuff for his EX family. Make the EX wife ignore it all and end the film without so much as a thank you. Oh.. and Make sure wife gets last word in film.
I saw this plot already 50 times and the actors seemed to be playing characters from other films / shows. Hence it's getting an awful 1 / 10 vote. The ending was seriously lacking any emotion value at all. She walks off with HER daughter without any recognition that all of trouble was her fault and without so much as a thank you to her ex who risk his life to correct her mistakes and save HER daughter. Very sad film.. not in a good way.
Shame on you Luc Besson & Pierre Morel extra shame on you! Stick to low budget "action" films. Your films are exceptionally unrealistic rather like the plot of a comic book. Stop wasting my time.