Live! (2007)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:6
Rotten:8
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: Uneven media satire on how far TV will go to secure ratings. Unfortunately it’s neither as funny or as sharp as it hopes to be.
Rated: 15
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:19-09-2008
Starring: Eva Mendes, David Krumholtz, Eric Lively, Katie Cassidy
Director: Bill Guttentag
Reviews for Live!
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 2/5 |
There is a big problem in believing any of it, but a certain amount of fun watching television’s more ghastly denizens wonder whether murder will improve the ratings. It does. Full Review |
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Mendes (best known as Will Smith’s love interest in Hitch) is enjoyably poisonous, making Live! just about worth catching. Full Review |
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1/5 |
This crass, inauthentic mock-doc exposing the evils of reality shows and the venality of TV honchos manages both to bore and insult simultaneously. Full Review |
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However, in a world where reality show formats are beyond parody, this particular gun goes off half-cocked. Full Review |
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1/5 |
Triumphs, humiliation, barmy monologues and temper tantrums - reality television is scarcely in need of parodying. Certainly not from a preachy film like this. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Bill Guttentag’s film is one of those shrill and cheery conspiracies on the wilder side of probability. But the black comedy has an infectious pace, and screwy logic. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
A sporadically entertaining but uneven media satire that never quite delivers on its clear sense of moral outrage. Full Review |
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2/6 |
It’s hard to distinguish between the cynical indifference of the characters and the arrogant nihilism of the film itself. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Smart, incisive, but not as sharp as it should have been. With a subject this ripe for evisceration, it’s a pity to let it off with flesh wounds. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Watchable satire with some nice touches and a strong performance by Eva Mendes, but it's neither as funny, as clever or as original as it thinks it is. Full Review |
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3/5 |
This straight-faced satire of American television raises important issues and is engaging enough to keep us gripped. But the astute commentary peaks too early, then gives way to a finale that's messy in more ways than one. Full Review |
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8/10 |
Mendes' Courbet is all the c-words: clever, cunning, a control freak, cynical; ultimately conformist. Here's another c-word - Cowell, Simon Cowell. Like him, she knows what the public want - before even they know it. Full Review |
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So spake that prescient philosopher Julie Brown: "Just be vague, there's nothing to it." Full Review |
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Worth seeing for the slinky, snakelike, sexy and oddly vulnerable performance of Eva Mendes, a star-making role if I've ever seen one. Full Review |
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