The Adventures of Pluto Nash

I had a surprising amount of fun with this, even though it’s a helter-skelter, at times ugly and abrasive effort that finds Murphy wavering uneasily between his smart-arse 90s action persona, and the more kiddie friendly direction the decade would take him in. There’s quite a bit of imagination in the set design, which sometimes looks like Willy Wonka had a stab at remaking TOTAL RECALL, and the stacked cast is at least good fun and good company (though some, like Boyle, seem to have been spirited off to the cutting room floor). An overly elaborate use of camera trick twins drags the film down (and only makes the hand-to-hand stuff look less convincing). Final note – I dare anyone to look at director Underwood’s filmography and find the common throughline!