When I was younger, I happened to catch a movie on the TV and watched it with my parents. The movie: The Jewel of the Nile, which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, and I really enjoyed it. Of course, I couldn't tell you at all what happened, but I just found it exciting and funny and neat-looking. It was only much later that I learned that this movie was the inferior to sequel to today's entry into the count-up.
It stars the same duo, along with Danny DeVito, with Douglas as a swashbuckler of the highest order and Turner as a classic "good person caught in a bad situation" character. The premise of the movie is just about the least interesting thing about it, which is fine since the leads are both pretty great (especially the super-hot-even-when-dowdy Turner), the dialogue is witty, and the look of the movie is all nature-like. Who cares if I don't really care what the "big" "story" "arc" is?
Of course, romance blossoms between the two leads, after the general "resolution of differences" and getting over their general feelings of mistrust. The ending is a bit saccharine, formulaic, and predictable, but would you really want anything else from this kind of movie? Overall, I'd watch it again, for sure, but I'm not in any hurry. It does make we want to watch more Kathleen Turner movies, though. Maybe some V.I. Warshawski at some point in the count-up?
Score: 7/10
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