A script this troubled isn't a temporary thing. F. Max Frye had some real nerve to come up with something so pathetic and beyond that whoever goes through deserves some special award.
A racist comedy of errors begin when the New rich Black in town (Samuel L. Jackson, from "Jungle Fever") is confused by the white mob when a dangerous prisioner (Nicolas Cage, "The Rock") is on the loose. With Jackson's Family being held on gunpoint by the clueless robber, the community and police force are trying to understand everything that always makes Samuel go through hell action or rebuttal for by a festivus of ignorant background characters join the party such as Brad Dourif, Dabney Coleman and Michael Lerner.
The scenario played in "Amos & Andrew" is so painfully created, dangerously conceived and imagined that there's no space for humor. Zero. It's the kind of thing that hapens in the local news and the audiences are terrified to see how it ends. As a horror movie it'd have a chance to become a cult favorite for it's period.
Cage and Jackson are some the greatest entertainners certain generations had the chance to see on countless movies. Here, they are forgettable. But the story written and directed is a complete rubbish that shouldn't exist at all. It's a mystery to understand how one can go from creating Demme's "Something Wild" a caotic dark comedy and then move to something so lifeless and painful.
Years later Frey career surprised the public and critics with "Foxcatcher" directed by Bennett Miller and co-written by Dan Futterman and they received awards and some Oscar nominations. Those after qualities presented are not here to make you want to see how bad it was a wasted reunion on talents. It feels like a downill that never ends, with bumpy obstacles and dumb characters on the way. You deserve better. 1/10
The scenario played in "Amos & Andrew" is so painfully created, dangerously conceived and imagined that there's no space for humor. Zero. It's the kind of thing that hapens in the local news and the audiences are terrified to see how it ends. As a horror movie it'd have a chance to become a cult favorite for it's period.
Cage and Jackson are some the greatest entertainners certain generations had the chance to see on countless movies. Here, they are forgettable. But the story written and directed is a complete rubbish that shouldn't exist at all. It's a mystery to understand how one can go from creating Demme's "Something Wild" a caotic dark comedy and then move to something so lifeless and painful.
Years later Frey career surprised the public and critics with "Foxcatcher" directed by Bennett Miller and co-written by Dan Futterman and they received awards and some Oscar nominations. Those after qualities presented are not here to make you want to see how bad it was a wasted reunion on talents. It feels like a downill that never ends, with bumpy obstacles and dumb characters on the way. You deserve better. 1/10