The cast is charming and capable enough, but they are wasted in thinly sketched roles trapped in toothless comedy.
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02/06/03
Deliver Us From Eva (2003)
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Reviews Counted:80
Fresh:34
Rotten:46
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: Though Union and LL Cool J are appealing romantic leads, Deliver Us From Eva is too predictable and contrived.
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: DELIVER US FROM EVA, directed by Gary Hardwick (THE BROTHERS), pits man against woman in a memorable battle royale of romance and comedy. Hardened by her parents' deaths, Eva Dandridge (Gabrielle... [More]
Starring: Gabrielle Union, LL Cool J, Essence Atkins, Dartanyan Edmonds
Director: Gary Hardwick
Reviews for Deliver Us From Eva
Well-cast relationship comedy-drama is played too broadly in the early going, but gradually settles into a more appealing groove as a glossy date-movie.
02/06/03
Top CriticThe movie delivers a few broad laughs along with insidious messages about the roles black women ought to play in society.
02/06/03
Deliver Us from Eva isn't The Taming of the Shrew; it's not even a reasonable facsimile.
02/06/03
The vibrancy of actors Gabrielle Union and LL Cool J overrules the nastiness of the people they're playing.
02/06/03
Despite director Gary Hardwick's stock sitcom scenarios, LL Cool J, the rapper-turned-actor, does a great job as a leading man Lothario.
02/06/03
Union's performance is, unfortunately, even more insufferable than the character of Eva is supposed to be.
02/06/03
Union wins you over to the movie while making you wish she had a script smart enough to really serve her talents.
02/06/03
A pleasant enough romp, but it succumbs to a one-note script that restricts the film's characters from taking advantage of much of its potential hilarity.
02/06/03
A welcome respite from verbal nastiness and sexual cynicism.
02/06/03
Not only is this a funny and romantic movie, but it proves, yet again, that movies can and, in some instances, should be colorblind.
02/06/03
The story seems to have enough momentum to carry itself through to the end - but by the movie’s final scene - the wind has left its sails.
02/06/03
Populated by people like the people who make you say things like ‘Don’t you just hate people?’: petty, mean-spirited, selfish, inconsiderate, and all-about miserable excuses for human beings.
02/06/03
That's all anyone is called on to do: Be very tame, and make much ado about zilch.
02/06/03
So bad, it exists on a whole new level of failure.
02/06/03
(Features) the same tiresome, misogynistic so-called happy-ending in which women forgive...men for acting unforgivably stupid and take them back. Awww, ain't that romantic?
02/06/03
As for Eva getting her groove back, well, aside from some ill-advised horseback riding, James Todd Smith proves a worthy match.
02/05/03
Practically laughless...most viewers will plead for deliverance not just from Eva, but from the whole movie.
02/05/03
Reasonably diverting.
02/05/03
Top Critic[Y]ou'd never suspect the director had made a film before, much less had four novels published, one of which gets conspicuous product-placement time onscreen.
02/04/03
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