Shooting Fish . Tucson Weekly . 06-29-98

Shooting Fish

DIRECTED BY: Stefan Schwartz (III)

REVIEWED: 06-29-98

A cute caper comedy from Britain, Shooting Fish piles on the winks and smiles and skimps on anything you might actually feel in your gut. Dan Futterman and Stuart Townsend play twentysomething orphans who keep pulling off quick scams so they can save up to buy a mansion. Kate Beckinsale's pixie hair and perfect teeth star as the guys' perky love interest. Will Kate fall for the fast-talking, ever-smirking playboy, or the shy, socially awkward technical wizard? The movie hardly pauses for an answer, whisking our protagonists off for still more mini-adventures. For all its mobility, though, Shooting Fish never really catches you off guard, and gets about as sexy as a science fair. It would make a nice double feature with Cold Comfort Farm. Emphasis on the word "nice."

--Woodruff

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