Casanova (2005)
October 3rd 2008 07:43 pm
Was that really Sienna Miller? No matter what angle I tried to look at her from I just didn’t recognise her at all. I would like to say it was because of her amazing acting or something but actually I couldn’t get past the curly brown hair!
This film had a number of “moments” that had me giggling to myself but in the end was it actually a fun film? As a Christian I have to questions the morals in this film. There was an awful lot of promotion that sex was a certified way to be popular and the more promiscious you were the better. Even though there was a small attempt to counteract this with the love interest the ending of the film negated this by carrying on the Casanova tradition but with a new face.
The attempt with the plot to be clever by juggling the love interest, book author, inquisition and fiancee(s) fell flat on its face and missed plenty of opportunities to actually be quite clever with the story. The film soon runs out of what steam it did have by the end and resorts to very poor plot choices and a “shake your head in disappointment” ending.
Omid Djalili as Lupo and Jeremy Irons as Pucci were the highlights of the film but were too little to save this from being another poor comedy.
[4/10]
