Sunday, June 8, 2014

The Merry Gentleman 2008


The Merry Gentleman


     Kate Frazier is married to a policeman.  He’s abusive and he beats her but it doesn’t do any good for her to call the police.  He makes up a story and they leave.  She finally gets the courage to leave and she heads to Chicago.  She gets a job as a receptionist and starts to feel alive again.  She’s outside of the building waiting for a co-worker when she sees a man nearly stepping off the tall building across the street.  She was looking up because it had just started to snow.  When she screamed, the man fell back from the ledge.  She doesn’t know he was a hit man and he’s just killed a man nearby. 
     I like Kelly Macdonald as an actress and she does a good job in his film.  She draws you into her character, you really feel for her and you don’t want anything more to happen to her.  She shouldn’t get involved with the investigator on the case because we already know her experiences with the police.  We already know Michael Keaton can be very strange so you don’t know what to expect from him.  3 ½* (I liked this movie)

110 min, Drama directed by Michael Keaton with Kelly Macdonald, Tom Bastounes, Michael Keaton, Bobby Cannavale, William Dick, Sean Fortunato.

Note:  Imdb 6.6 out of 10, 64% critic 49% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 3 ½*.





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