Bending the Rules

Not as bad as I was led to believe.

Bending the Rules was one of these pictures I herd only bad things about. People would give it a 3 or a 4 or something. Then I see the movie and I got to say I was entertained and that’s what it was all about.

They should rename The Edge The Charisma, cause he totally has it. It’s one of those things where I know him as a heel (bad guy) in the ring, but in the movie he has the nicest persona, and I love to see the range in people who I only know one side of. He’s no Rock, but he’s good enough to carry a small movie that needs that spark. Plus it’s hilarious hearing that deep Canadian accent coming out of a guy whose suppose to be playing a New Orleans cop.

Jamie Kennedy is definitely the weaker link of the somewhat buddy cop movie thing going on here. Kennedy plays a district attorney trying to put the Edge’s character in jail for being a bad cop. Then they end up having to team up to find a car that leads to a bigger crime. Kennedy  is the jerk in the relationship, and he plays it too well. Even thought he’s at a bad point in his life with his wife leaving him and not getting the promotion he wants, and all his colleagues hating him for not being able to bend the rules, but I never fully feel sorry for Kennedy. He never really shows his redeemable qualities. He starts a jerk and ends still being a jerk. May not be all his fault, as that is what the character is suppose to be but  it does put a little more work on The Edge to be likable.

It’s a good story about the Edge doing detective work going around trying to solve a crime and interacting with interesting characters in New Orleans and it’s a good movie for that. Kennedy does not hurt the movie but does not help it either.

Very fun to watch, and after watching, hearing what I herd I give it a 6, but it maybe a 5.