'Special
Correspondents' feels like the bad cut of a good movie. A good movie
that they did extensive re-shoots for. You know what this makes me
think (also what 'Derek' makes me think)? Stephen Merchant is a
really good writer.
This
is a mildly amusing farce, but all of the characters are so
incredibly one dimensional that that's what was taking up most of my
attention (not that this resulted in me missing any plot). The story
also progresses obviously, then runs out of steam and ends half
ridiculously and half unsatisfactorily.
What's
worse is that there's a fair amount of potential here to make a point
about American “news” or war or something, but it ultimately
comes to nothing. The satirical bite of this film or more of a gummy
slobber, as the whole famous wife thing (a character I couldn't bring
myself to dislike, because that would be like disliking a nail for
it's pointy personality) gets a glance, and the fictitious war is
mildly made fun of before it (and the rest of Ecuador) end up just
being openly mocked.
Oh yeah and there are two main hispanic characters that help hide the two guys, and their personality trait is that they're stupid. Yup.
Oh! And I nearly forgot: Ricky Gervais randomly kills a bunch of people out of nowhere near the end. He shoots one of them in the privates. HAHAHAHAHA.
Special Correspondents: 24.6