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First Sunday is a new comedy directed and written by David E. Talbert, a first-time film maker. He's had a lot of success with plays, and this movie, kind of plays a little bit like a play. It seems perhaps like it would have been more comfortable on the stage than on the screen, but it has its good points.
‘What kind of name is Lee John, anyway?’ ‘When I was born, my mother had two boyfriends, Lee and John, she ain’t know who my real father was so she named me Lee John.’ ‘I don’t think I would have been told that.’
Ice Cube is the star. He plays Durrell, a man in Baltimore and he has to come up with 17,000 dollars or else, his child and his child's mother will move out of town.
Durrell’s best friend is Lee John played by Tracy Morgan and he's the usual comic-sight-kicked Ice Cube. Ice Cube does best in comedies when he has a comic sight kick ‘cause he doesn't show a lot of great humor or enthusiasm himself.
But the person who really steals the show is Kat Williams playing Rickey, the choir director at the church that Lee John and Durrell decide to rob.
What kind of people would rob a church? That question gets asked again and again, the whole middle third of First Sunday consistsof people asking the two robbers what you are doing, robbing a church?
But they need the money and the comedy needs a hook. There needs to be some misunderstanding, some shenanigans.
Robbing a Church is one way to get inside a church and church's where these guys are supposed to be end up.
You can see the ending coming from a mile away. This is gonna’ be a warm slightly sentimental movie about redemption and the bad guy see the air at their ways, the nice people of the church take them in and life goes on.
Your life will certainly go on if you skip this movie but if you are in the mood for something easy, soft, sweet with some funny moments then you could do worse than to check out First Sunday.
[ 本帖最后由 Tomoyo the kid 于 2008-3-29 22:08 编辑 ] |