This followup to the 1992 movie isn’t that bad. Tony Todd returns as the excellent Candyman, and we learn more about his history.
Sure, we already knew that if you look in a mirror and call his name five times, you’ll soon be visited by him, and he’ll be only too happy to split you from groin to gullet – not a pleasant experience.
Bruce Willis stars in this thriller about a down-on-his-luck private eye who gets a plum assignment guarding an exotic dancer (a young Halle Berry).
Unfortunately, he gets the job from his best friend, which ordinarily wouldn’t be so bad, but he gets the job because his friend is finds out that it’s dangerous, and since he is sleeping with his wife, he wants him out of the picture. Too bad for him he’s too late and gets blown up early on.
This film is made to bring together a handful of fresh young faces (well, they were fresh at the time), but the story isn’t bad. Though I’m not up on my mob history, the fact that “Lucky” Luciano (Christian Slater) and Meyer Lansky (Patrick Dempsey) reshaped the mafia as it was into the mafia that it became is a pretty interesting one to see.
What’s too bad is that it looks too much like a teeny-bopper movie than a serious flick, so instead of being a competitor to Goodfellas, it’s seen more as a joke. That’s a shame.
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