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Dancing_P [ 6.0 ]
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As if Elephant Man was not definitive enough, Peter Bogdanovich struck back five years later with the true story of Rocky Dennis, a teenager with a disease similar to that of John Merrick. Rocky (played by Eric Stoltz) lives with his hard-partying mother Rusty (Cher) and hangs out with a bunch of bikers, all the while living a normal teenage life except fot the fact that calcium deposits itself in his head at such a rate that his head is in fact twice the regular size. And, basically, the entire point of the film is to show us that Rocky may be different but he's still a better person than all of us. It's not like we never heard this before, so you pray that the film has something different to offer. And, well, that's not really the case. Although the film has enough moments to make it good enough to warrant a ''passing mark'', it's also a victim of practically every cliché in the book. The idea here was to make Rocky a very normal kid, so they have him do very normal kid stuff: get mad at his mom, chase girls, be pissed off... except none of this is particularly interesting. If this WAS a normal kid, this movie never would've been made. Its portrayal of bikers is ridiculous (when bikers get together, they immediately begin to fight in a comical, slapstick manner or dance around and break stuff) and the love story (between Stoltz and Laura Dern as a blind girl with whom Rocky falls in love) taken directly out of Frankenstein. Stoltz (an underrated actor in my book) is great as Rocky and Cher is... okay as his mom, but the rest of the cast (including Sam Elliott as Rusty's biker boyfriend, who's just ridiculous) is playing this very broad indeed. As a stand-alone film, Mask is not bad... but other movies have done this earlier and better. Look up 'mediocre' in the dictionary and you'll have a picture of this movie. Also, a picture of Maroon 5.
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| Weighted Rating | : 6.5 |
| No. Ratings | : 9 | |
| No. Reviews | : 5 | |
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