Sorry, Ving Rhames. You might make a good tough guy... but as a drag queen, you are nothing but a complete EPIC FAIL. So seeing you gyrating your hips, clad in a dress and boogieing on down to The Supremes is uncomfortable to say the least. The worst aspect though, is the rent-a-crowd whooping and hollering his every facile movement. How hard up for entertainment must these guys be, to find this pathetic spectacle enjoyable? And enough to make him rich? Sorry, not in the real world, darl. You wouldn't even make it past the audition stage of America's Got Talent. Those buzzers would be going off faster than 4th of July fireworks.
So you see, this made for TV film has a major credibility issue from the start. Another problem would be the amount of tolerance the church has towards homosexuality... In the rose-tinted view of Holiday Heart, it isn't even raised. But as we know, America is one of the most divided countries regarding gays and Christianity, so the fact it wasn't even brought up at ANY point here makes me smell a rat. Or rather, a cover-up. It's much more interested in pursuing it's stock characters with boring, melodramatic predictability rather than tackle anything of real note.
I could also go into Rhames's role further, as he is a complete pushover who gives up ALL his dreams just so he can look after this junkie and her daughter he's known for five minutes. He also forgives a man who threatens and shouts homophobic abuse at him for months, at the drop of a hat. I'm sorry, but people who take so much punishment without trying to fight back even a bit do not earn my sympathy, but utter contempt. And that stupid camp voice he talks in... Yep, sufficed to say I don't like him in this film. Or indeed, anything else, really.
APART from one scene near the end, when he start beating up a pimp and his heavies. It's completely unbelievable in context. but it did remind me what he was good at. Better stick to action movies, Ving... 3/10
So you see, this made for TV film has a major credibility issue from the start. Another problem would be the amount of tolerance the church has towards homosexuality... In the rose-tinted view of Holiday Heart, it isn't even raised. But as we know, America is one of the most divided countries regarding gays and Christianity, so the fact it wasn't even brought up at ANY point here makes me smell a rat. Or rather, a cover-up. It's much more interested in pursuing it's stock characters with boring, melodramatic predictability rather than tackle anything of real note.
I could also go into Rhames's role further, as he is a complete pushover who gives up ALL his dreams just so he can look after this junkie and her daughter he's known for five minutes. He also forgives a man who threatens and shouts homophobic abuse at him for months, at the drop of a hat. I'm sorry, but people who take so much punishment without trying to fight back even a bit do not earn my sympathy, but utter contempt. And that stupid camp voice he talks in... Yep, sufficed to say I don't like him in this film. Or indeed, anything else, really.
APART from one scene near the end, when he start beating up a pimp and his heavies. It's completely unbelievable in context. but it did remind me what he was good at. Better stick to action movies, Ving... 3/10