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Leslie Nielsen may very well be improving with age. He just might. But you wouldn't know it from his films lately (Dracula: Dead and Loving It, Spy Hard), and one reason this may be is because his script writers keep trying to cram too many movie references into his parodies. Wrongfully Accused references literally too many movies to count; since most of them are thirty-second dialogue bits, they're not all that clever in the first place. Coffee cup crashing onto the floor=Usual Suspects reference, for example. Blue painted face at the Renaissance Fair=Braveheart. Yeah, I get it. But I'm not laughing.
Nielsen plays Ryan Harrison, a violin player/sex supergod who gets wrapped up in a terrorist/kidnapping/murder plot and is the foil of a one-armed, one-legged, one-eyed man (they forgot "one-good-joke-wielding") that he has to find in order to clear his name. So he stumbles through episode after episode, movie reference after movie reference, and somewhere along the line he scores with Kelly LeBrock. Richard Crenna plays Lieutennant Falls, and actually has a few good lines that match up to Nielsen's. But in the end, the humor in this movie falls as flat as Crenna's career seems to have (much to my dismay--he's got potential! Somebody cast him in something good!).
Normally we at Tso Long Productions advise "wait for the rental" with movies like this. Now, however, I've got to eat my words: Just watch the trailer. It'll have you laughing harder than this turkey, believe me.
--Long
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