Movie review – Edge of Darkness (2010)
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Romantic comedy. Starring Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel. Directed by Mark Steven Johnson.
When in Rome, the saying goes. Just imitate the Romans: Hang out at fountains, drive on the sidewalk, mispronounce English for the benefit of Yanks.
All three behaviors occur in Mark Steven Johnson's "When in Rome," a klutzy try at romantic comedy that begins and ends in the Eternal City. The remainder of its time is spent in New York, another urban center for love, aggressive driving and cliches, where an eager young art curator (Kristen Bell) claims no interest in men.
Then, she meets one: Nick (Josh Duhamel), an affable, accident-prone lonelyheart who twinkles in his natural state. He and Beth cross paths in Rome, at her sister's (Alexis Dziena) wedding. The sparks soon fly, but - well, leave it at "but." A drunken Beth then splashes around in the "Fountain of Love" (a stand-in for the Trevi), from which she plucks four coins and a poker chip tossed by hopeful romantics.
Back in Manhattan, she's immediately approached by a suite of enchanted suitors: a nut-job magician (Jon Heder), a nut-job artist (Will Arnett), a nut-job narcissist (Dax Shepard) and a slightly less nut-job but no less irritating sausage magnate (Danny DeVito), who declares his love with bratwurst. These four walking plot devices then go on to waste precious celluloid that should have gone to the leads. Bell and Duhamel make a cuddly pair, but the film's loony screenplay by David Diamond and David Weissman is more interested in slamming them on their backsides than fizzing up the chemistry between them.
Johnson, best known for his Marvel adaptations ("Daredevil," "Ghost Rider"), directs "When in Rome" with a slapdash laxity that's entirely wrong for the genre. Comedies require precision, and there's none here; instead, characters and scenes bash into each other with no evident purpose or logic.
"When in Rome" bears no relation to two earlier releases with the same title - one of them starring Mary Kate and Ashley, the other a Van Johnson vehicle about a priest and a thug who steals his clothes. It boasts only loose ties to the 1954 romance "Three Coins in the Fountain." And it's best not to even think of "Roman Holiday," the gold standard for hanging, and driving, and doing as Romans do. Rent that instead.
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