If your premise is so far-fetched that it breaks credibility, your film is in serious trouble. That's what's wrong with FLYPAPER. We're in a bank when two different bumbling groups attempt to rob it. That's not the incredulous part. The lead (Patrick Dempsey in a terrible performance with an even more terrible dye job), while taken hostage, actually plays amateur detective and tries to uncover what's really going on.
Who's going to do that? I understand that this is a comedy but this motivation is so far removed from reality that it destroys the suspension of disbelief that is required to pull this plot off.
During the robbery, we actually get a scene where the robbers stop everything so they can get online and compare their criminal rankings on a site. Ridiculous.
The story then takes a left, turning into a murder-mystery. This actually makes more sense for Dempsey's character because it gives him something to solve. However, at this point, the audience has long since left.
John Ventimiglia gives a good performance as does Matt Ryan.
Ashely Judd walks through her role.
Rob Minkoff should go back to animation.
Terrible film.
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