No spoilers this time, as a Hugh Grant fan, I watched Hugh Grant and Marc Lawrence's fourth collaboration, The Rewrite, with great anticipation.
The Rewrite tells the story of a failed playwright who wakes up in middle age and becomes a new man. The plot is very similar to Music and Lyrics (2007), a protagonist and an agent who refuses to give up, the portrayal of the shipwrecked combination of Grant and Lawrence, and several cooperations have been mixed.
I did get excited for a while to see Castle Rock's searchlight opening and the familiar jazz opening of '90s comedies, but what a nondescript child.
The film heavily quotes the works of famous modern writers and is set in an American city with a cloudy and rainy day. The director thinks that this can set off Grant's temperament, hehe, it's the opposite. The plot of the story gave me an uncomfortable feeling of pretending not to understand, and rigging it. The jokes in the film are all commonplace, without any wisdom and pungency. The setting of the supporting characters and the plot are very old-fashioned, with a bleak operation and a broken rhythm.
This story is in line with Grant's situation in recent years. He encountered a bottleneck in his career, and Grant failed to transform successfully. If he wants to become a great actor, he can't just eat his own money. The shallow taste of The Pirates! ruined other possibilities of his career.
I think fans hope that he and Richard Curtis can reproduce the glory of Notting Hill and 4 marriages and 1 burial. It is not easy for a masterpiece to be born, and it is not an old Grant to be born. Wait for Guy Ritchie to bring Hugh Grant back to fans in his new film, The Man from UNCLE (2015).
I think fans who like to see Hugh Grant's hesitant smile, hesitantly smiling, slightly sarcastic gentleman style, should not be too disappointed with this film. Very Hugh Grant-esque performance, but the film doesn't particularly successfully flatter him.
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