Product: Tailor of Panama [VHS] (2001)
Rating: 4.0
When Lies Run Amok
If you want to follow this movie, you will need to stay seated and focus. Lies are running on different levels of this movie and will require your attention to follow them. Not only do people tell lies to make things easier for themselves, but also because that is exactly what the audience wants to hear.Geoffrey Rush plays an ex-convict who has moved to Panama to start his life over again as a tailor. He is down on his luck but refuses to accept this. He lies to his wife, Jamie Lee Curtis, by not telling her how bad their investment is doing. His banker lies to him by not telling him that the banker himself knows more about the property than he is letting on.Along comes Pierce Brosnan who has been sent to Panama by MI6 in Englad because of some indiscretion. Rather than being told he is sent for punishment, his superior sugarcoats and "lies" by telling him there are many things an intelligence officer needs to do there. Once in Panama, he contacts Rush and convinces him to make introductions and give him information. This combination creates a new web of lies that rapidly go out of control.Watching Brosnan as a cad threw me off a bit. I think of James Bond and Remington Steele so seeing him curse and lie is a little disconcerting. He does pull it off though.I would recommend seeing this movie.