Rescue Me (1992)

I believe this film may have been much better. His purpose was entertain, with easy jokes, some action scenes, and leaving some ideas about how life actually is.

Unfortunately, the  ideas shown on the film lack of depth in their development.

We can see a geek who feels a great attraction of Ginny (we can not speak of love, since he doesn`t know the girl).

In other hand, we can observe Ami in a too steretyped character, a rich spoiled daddy`s  girl, cheerleader, and girlfriend of the football captain. Maybe i can grant that Ginny shows cleverness to escape from her captors, something that is not seen at all in the stereotyped characters of cheerleaders.

Fraser's story about his father works, because it seeks to incorporate dramatic elements to the film which I think does. Sometimes works her duet with Dudikoff, but not always

The concept of nerd who wants to be the hero, rescuing the woman of his dreams of two bandits, along with a renegade of the Vietnam War is interesting,

The movie may have been much better, with a better development of characters, a better explanation of stories of the past of the protagonists which would allowerd to understand in a better way 

Personally i would have liked a sincere conversation between Fraser and Ginny

The film tries to show a different ending, more realistic, which is a good idea (rather the happy ending than what one would expect), but should have done more, giving greater depth to conclude this film.

Ami interprets a character who is a caricature, looking to get a laugh (besides the beauty of Dolenz), and even see it as an antagonist, because we can see practically only bad things in Ginny. Her performance is good, if we think in what the director and producers wants to see in screen, but unfortunately continues the simplistic stereotype of spoiled cheerleader who does what her wants, and almost always gets what she wants.

While Ami performed correctly the role assigned, setting the tone, plus her voice was quite shrill (like a little girl) different to anothers performance, like "Demolition University" for example. I personally think that it may have helped her was typecast of this kind of character. 


And Ig think we think about the mentioned real life, and what the movie tries to transmit, characters like Ginny, are actually more complex than as showed on screen.


 1993