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The Watch
There comes a time in every actor's career where they sit down and think to themselves, "What am I doing? Why am I always in such terrible films?". That man today, ladies and gentlemen, is Vince Vaughan. I hear you gasp in shock! Surely not Vince Vaughan! What film could possibly be that bad? What's “The Watch”?
Go away now, please.
Of course, I speak not of the Italian progressive rock band with the same name, but the film, “The Watch” starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughan, Jonah Hill (why does he still take garbage like this?) and, new to the Hollywood arena, Richard Ayoade, from the British sitcom, The I.T. Crowd. Admittedly at first this seemed like a strange casting choice, but as the film progresses, it becomes clear why Ayoade was a decent shot-in-the-dark.
The film itself centres around the death of a security guard at the local Costco (you couldn't dream up this level of product placement could you?). The manager of the Costco, Evan Trautwig, sets up a “Neighbourhood Watch” in response to the killing, in order to find his employee's murderer. What they don't realise is that the murders are being committed by a wandering alien, and the foursome are tasked with saving the world from the alien threat.
The major issue I have with the film is the weak, oh so very weak script. The jokes just don't work and I can only remember myself chuckling at two/three moments throughout the film, two involving Ayoade. For a comedy, lack of jokes is suicide, and it feels as if Ben Stiller has a pistol raised to the side of his head throughout this entire ordeal. Stiller plays a weak version of Gaylord Focker, Vaughan shouts more or less every crap line he's given, Hill should not be starring in this garbage anymore because he has a burgeoning career and Ayoade is the saving grace amongst the main cast, giving a decent performance, albeit one which probably won't gain him many friends in Hollywood circles.
In a nutshell, The Watch is predictable, mindless nonsense which you should not be put through. Find a better Ben Stiller film. Like Zoolander. Blue Steel.
There comes a time in every actor's career where they sit down and think to themselves, "What am I doing? Why am I always in such terrible films?". That man today, ladies and gentlemen, is Vince Vaughan. I hear you gasp in shock! Surely not Vince Vaughan! What film could possibly be that bad? What's “The Watch”?
Go away now, please.
Of course, I speak not of the Italian progressive rock band with the same name, but the film, “The Watch” starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughan, Jonah Hill (why does he still take garbage like this?) and, new to the Hollywood arena, Richard Ayoade, from the British sitcom, The I.T. Crowd. Admittedly at first this seemed like a strange casting choice, but as the film progresses, it becomes clear why Ayoade was a decent shot-in-the-dark.
The film itself centres around the death of a security guard at the local Costco (you couldn't dream up this level of product placement could you?). The manager of the Costco, Evan Trautwig, sets up a “Neighbourhood Watch” in response to the killing, in order to find his employee's murderer. What they don't realise is that the murders are being committed by a wandering alien, and the foursome are tasked with saving the world from the alien threat.
The major issue I have with the film is the weak, oh so very weak script. The jokes just don't work and I can only remember myself chuckling at two/three moments throughout the film, two involving Ayoade. For a comedy, lack of jokes is suicide, and it feels as if Ben Stiller has a pistol raised to the side of his head throughout this entire ordeal. Stiller plays a weak version of Gaylord Focker, Vaughan shouts more or less every crap line he's given, Hill should not be starring in this garbage anymore because he has a burgeoning career and Ayoade is the saving grace amongst the main cast, giving a decent performance, albeit one which probably won't gain him many friends in Hollywood circles.
In a nutshell, The Watch is predictable, mindless nonsense which you should not be put through. Find a better Ben Stiller film. Like Zoolander. Blue Steel.