The Alibi (2006)
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Duration: 90 minuten
Alternative titles: Lies & Alibis / Lies and Alibis
Country:
United States / Netherlands
Directed by: Matt Checkowski and Kurt Mattila
Stars: Steve Coogan, Rebecca Romijn and James Marsden
IMDb score:
6,3 (6.613)
Releasedate: 12 January 2006
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
The Alibi plot
"We keep your private life private."
Ray Elliott (Coogan) runs a small business that provides cheating husbands with an alibi when they are in danger of being caught. When he gets into trouble with a customer, he must rely on the beautiful Lola Davis to solve the situation.
Actors and actresses
Ray Elliot
Lola Davis
Adelle
Bob Hatch
The Mormon
Heather
Hannibal
Wendell Hatch
Putty
Dorothy
Reviews & comments
Zinema (crew films)
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- 10285 messages
- 7371 votes
Entertaining film that unfortunately sometimes seems a bit lost and somewhat chaotic. For the observant viewer, however, an entertaining and exciting film is in the offing, with a touch of humor. Good.
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Donkerwoud
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- 8773 messages
- 3996 votes
Old-fashioned comedy about a con man and the shady characters he scams. The film wants us to think it's funnier than it actually is. All supporting roles are extremely thick, but they never really want to laugh. Only the crook in the lead role - typical case of stiff yet stylish Brit - is very well cast. But the supporting roles such as an Arab hit man, Mormon cheating hottie or a lost rich kid who has just committed a murder are not fully exploited. Also a film that borrows from dozens of other superior films. The mysterious unknown person from The Usual Suspects. The confrontation between all the characters from Reservoir Dogs. The stoic Briton from the entire oeuvre of Guy Ritchie.
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Roger Thornhill
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- 6195 messages
- 2546 votes
Another movie... A mix of Ritchie, Tarantino and Soderbergh, with countless familiar faces, constant tongue-in-cheek music, camerawork that "calls for attention to itself", kinetic editing and a wise-cracking voice-over. As Darkwood said above, "The movie wants us to think it's funnier than it actually is." That's the risk with such a film: it is soon "too clever for its own good", because if you don't pay attention for two minutes you miss a handful of complications, but it is simply part of making such a film so quickly. possible to propel. (And then I watched the whole movie carefully and the denouement still came as a complete surprise.) Beautifully filmed, the familiar faces do their thing well, I always like to watch Steve Coogan, and the script is undeniably well and cleverly put together , but afterwards, just like with (the remake of) Ocean's 11, I had the idea that I was looking more at form than at content. And sometimes that's not a bad thing (like with Joe Carnahan's Smokin' aces or more recently Ritchie's The gentlemen), but with The alibi I mostly stayed cold behind. A matter of too many and too exaggerated plot twists for my taste.
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