risky business it ain't

Rating: Null/10 (4 September 2004)

This movie could have been so much more than it turned out to be. It had a great premise, great young actors with a lot of chemistry, but unfortunately it took a bad turn 30 minutes or so into the movie. Up till that point it was going great, focusing strongly on the personalities and vulnerabilities of the characters and the love story between them, which is what I think makes a movie good. It then, for no apparent reason, took a left turn onto the road of zany hijinks. So much of the camera time was devoted to the male characters running around getting into wacky situations that the love story was simply squeezed out of existence. I'm sure making movies is tough, but there's a simple rule every filmmaker should know--anticipation is everything, and this movie lost that in the first 30 minutes.