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Excess Baggage

1997, Movie, PG-13, 98 mins

Excess Baggage: Review

EXCESS BAGGAGE
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The first fruit of wunderkinder Alicia Silverstone's First Kiss Productions, this muddled thriller-cum-romantic comedy of errors suggests that she might want to lay off the producing for a few years. Emotionally neglected by her father (Jack Thompson), poor little rich brat Emily Hope (Silverstone) stages her own kidnapping, phoning in the ransom request with the aid of a voice synthesizer and then bundling herself into the trunk of her car. The plan goes awry when a professional auto thief (Benicio Del Toro) unwittingly snatches her highly desirable BMW right out from under the noses of the FBI. Leaving aside the fact that Silverstone is costumed, made-up and photographed even more unflatteringly than she was in BATMAN & ROBIN, the single biggest thing wrong with this movie is that no one involved seems to have agreed on what movie it's meant to be. A romantic comedy about a madcap heiress knocked off her gilded pedestal by a regular Joe and loving every minute of it? Maybe, but Del Toro's mumbling, drugged-out-looking performance has no place in that picture, nor does Christopher Walken's scary assassin, dispatched by less-than-doting dad to get Emily back. A gritty coming-of-age story in which an impetuous but unworldly girl is sucked into a thrilling brush with the low life? If so, the grit needs some work: None of the purportedly dangerous thugs poses any kind of threat to the petulant Emily, so who cares about their bumbling plots? In fact, who cares about any of it? Even 1994's second-rate THE CHASE gets more mileage out of similar material. leave a comment --Maitland McDonagh
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