Wednesday 27 June 2012

The Chaperone (2011) 5/10

Starring : Paul “Triple H” Levesque, Ariel Winter, Kevin Corrigan, Jose Zuniga, Annabeth Gish, Yeardley Smith, Kevin Rankin, Enrico Colantoni
Director : Stephen Herek
Running Time : 104 mins

When getaway driver Ray Bradstone (Levesque) is released from prison, he swears an oath to make things up to his ex-wife Lynne (Gish) and their daughter Sally (Winter), so when he is offered a part in one last bank job he eventually refuses, leaving his co-thieves in the lurch. When he then decides to help on his daughter’s school field trip, he finds himself being pursued by Phillip Larue (Corrigan), the brains behind the bank job Ray walked out on.

Like most movies that feature professional wrestlers (I’ll allow Dwayne Johnson to be the exception that proves the rule), this was pretty pointless. We’re supposed to sympathise with the professional thief who turns good for his family’s sake, even though his first instinct when he’s released from prison was to take the job as getway driver! At least this isn’t filled with ridiculous slapstick, although that could have helped move some of the action along.

You’ll like this if you liked : The Pacifier



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