Boomerang (1992)

Simply A Masterpiece

People are voting emotionally.

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Boomerang is a very poor movie with a storyline that never really goes anywhere or gets very interesting but a good comedic cast.I felt like they thought they were being a very different and unique romantic comedy,and while it isn't like any other one I've seen,thats not particularly a good thing.It goes on for way longer than it needs to and I didn't feel a lot of sympathy towards Eddie Murphys character,which is difficult because we follow him for the whole film and are expected to like and feel sorry for him.The best parts were the scenes between Eddie Murphy,David Alan Grier and Martin Lawrence,they seemed to enjoy each others company and clearly got to improvise their lines together,which was great because the scripted scenes are not very funny.It has some good moments,but Boomerang dosen't succeed very much as either a comedy or romance and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. An ambitious,womanizing ad executive meets his match when he gets involved with three different women.Best Performance: Eddie Murphy Worst Performance: Eartha Kitt

What this movie is about? The story of a liar who lives a lying world then finds truth finally? A lover man who's torn between 2 different women? The friendship of 3 guys? Actually the movie itself doesn't know otherwise it could've been more coherent, enjoyable and complete.OK, it's a story of a man who sells everything until he himself becomes a merchandise to be sold. And as a romance, supposedly romance !, the movie pushes this lead to learn about himself as lost person without real love in his life. BUT this movie so lousily sinks itself in a lot of details, un-comic characters, many conversations before hitting the right nerve.It was too late for (Halle Berry) to discover that she loves (Eddie Murphy) or that he loves her; it seemed a desperate attempt for making a third act more than being the movie's main core for god's sake! Not to mention, the matter of so ugly (Robin Givens) on screen, portraying a femme fatale as well ??!! The inhumanly dreadful sight of (Grace Jones) who's one of a few emetic people I've watched in my entire life. The long conversations scenes which with the tepid, nearly dead, direction so the truly dull pace the whole thing looked close to pointless for most of the time. Many characters like (the mail-boy "Chris Rock", the mad model, the French artistic director, the old-deceived neighbor, the friend's parents, or even the annoying employee of the clothes store…) all of them took more time on the screen than what the original story, any original story, did take or should've taken.I pitied the charming and talented young (Berry). Although, she was a perfect princess of innocence, but this dumb script and that endless digressions wasted her utterly. The movie didn't give her space to appear right, or to appear right as someone would love the lead (she advised him how to seduce her boss by Jazz !?). I think that it must've been clear to her, so somehow us, how she got something for him from the very start, and how she must take over the screen at least since the second half. Instead of that they threw some real naive stuff to her (like the clueless first dialog between her and Murphy), and treated her like minor character (the heroine's sidekick) all along to suddenly remember her just before the very end! Although the intense performance that she delivered at the scene of her emotional explosion was the best, most strong anything, of this movie.. still one of the worst movies she was in!After many hits in the field of action and comedy, why not (Eddie Murphy) takes on romance. It was a bold attempt. Yes, he's a good actor along with being big star, but the movie wasn't that good (the word is : broken up). I think it got something with (Murphy) himself as the story's writer, and maybe his fear that the movie could be just romance without comedy, to end up as jammed comedy with not-real-laughs that belated the romance if not suffocated it. I loved a few of his moments here; on their top of course is the shot in which he finds the money for his "fatigue" besides the bed from his female version who's now treating him like a whore, notice how Murphy – silently – pulls the sheets on his chest, sad with weak feminine look in his eyes; actually with wicked little reactions he mastered like these, he's one of few comedians who can make comedy brilliantly with or without talking.Anyhow, it seemed like many incomplete movies in one, or boring stray comedy. I know that it could've been nice romantic comedy but what I've watched was an ideal example for underdeveloped one or a movie with dysfunctional personality. I read opinions about (Boomerang) as "smart movie"… please, it's anything but smart! P.S : at one scene (when the lead was being dumped) we see the lights go off at the top of one skyscraper. At later scene (when the lead hugs his friends) we see the lights go on at the same skyscraper !??... Naaa.. Don't bother, it's part of this movie's naivety !

I don't understand the meaning of the title (probably relating to throwing something away, and getting it back), but I recognised many of the African American stars in this film, and I enjoyed the fair amount. Basically Marcus Graham (Eddie Murphy) is a successful advertising executive, and also a hit with the ladies (womaniser). After a company merger he finds that his new boss, ravishing Jacqueline 'Jackie'/'Jack' Broyer (Robin Givens, former wife of Mike Tyson), she is treating him the same way he would. He thought he was in love with her, and for a while he was (presumably), and his work is going downhill, but then later he starts dating her more quietly attractive assistant Angela (Halle Berry), who was dating one of his best friends. In the end, after some negative turns and rejection, the eventually get back together, and they (supposedly) live happily ever after. I can definitely agree with the critics that Grace Jones as Helen Strangé and The Emperor's New Groove's Eartha Kitt as Lady Eloise give the film a buzz. Jones being, well, herself (putting on a French accent) is funny taking her knickers off in public, and demanding sex with Murphy, and saying "pussy" a lot, and Kitt with her funny nymphomaniac (desperate for sex) character, really husky voice, and sexy legs and body (even here 65, she's still foxy). Also starring Jumanji's David Alan Grier as Gerard Jackson, Martin Lawrence (just before his breakthrough in Bad Boys) as Tyler, Live and Let Die's Geoffrey Holder as Nelson, young Chris Rock (not long before he started stand-up comedy) as Bony T, Tisha Campbell as Yvonne and Lela Rochon as Christie. Sure, it's slightly long, but don't let that sway you. Worth watching!

Where do I start? Wow. It is rare that a movie can make me smile but at the same make me really laugh. No fake laughs but real laughs I seen this movie a number of times and it never gets old. The cast is so superb... I mean come on Martin( who is actually funny in this movie... okay he was funny in blue streak also) David Allen Grier ( Very underrated talent...funniest cast member on "in living color") and of Course Eddie Murphy. Then the other supporting cast was hilarious. How can anyone not love this movie... and my god I can quote it all day long. This movie is a perfect example of relying on the surrounding cast members and not one star to bring in the funny. Worth the view..