Zero Effect . Metro Pulse . 09-21-98

Zero Effect

DIRECTED BY: Jake Kasdan

REVIEWED: 09-21-98

In Zero Effect (1998, R) Stiller plays Steve Arlo, assistant to the world's most private private dick. Bill Pullman as Daryl Zero, the aforementioned P.I., deserves more acting kudos than he usually gets. In his off-time, Zero is a complete neurotic, unable to complete the most basic of tasks without Arlo's help, which puts a serious crimp in Arlo's budding relationship with Angela Featherstone (who may be a great actress; we never really see enough of her skills to find out.) Zero Effect is full of great one-liners, but never quite figures out what it wants to be. Stiller plays it as a comedy, Pullman as a quirky love story; director Jake Kasdan can't pull the whole thing together by the time the credits roll.

--Adrienne Martini

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