Blonde Ambition (2007/Sony DVD)
Picture: C+ Sound: C+ Extras: D Film: D
Jessica
Simpson’s film career is in decline and though Willie Nelson is here, her
co-star form the unfortunate Dukes Of
Hazzard revival, Scott Marshall’s Blonde
Ambition (2007) is really, really bad.
In this convoluted mess, Katie (Simpson) discovers her boyfriend is
cheating on her when she visits him in New York from Oklahoma, gets a
construction office job and with the help of two friends (one possibly gay, the
other a woman played by Andy Dick and Penelope Ann Miller) helps her to get to
know a guy (Luke Wilson) who she is very interested in.
He has a
secret, but let there be no secret about how bad this 93 minutes of tedious
torture is. Simpson is boring, tired and
even makes a bad film worse. Why this
was ever greenlit is beyond anyone, especially when you have seen it and how
quickly forgettable it is, but someone wanted to have a tax write-off we guess
and when Larry Miller cannot save your film, it is time to hang it up.
The
anamorphically enhanced 1.85 X 1 image is flatly shot by Mark Irwin, C.S.C.,
A.S.C., with some depth and detail issues a new production simply should not
sport. Irwin used to shoot for David
Cronenberg, but even they could not image the terror here. The Dolby Digital 5.1 has loud music by David
Kitay and dialogue is not as well-recorded as it could be. Deleted scenes of no consequence and a making
of featurette are the only extras.
- Nicholas Sheffo
