Movie Night -- French Kill

[outlier_lynn]

I really like Kevin Kline, so when Stacey discovered a movie that was made in 1995 when I was not paying the slightest attention to movies which starred Mr. Kline, we opted to watch it. The other star was Meg Ryan. Ms. Ryan plays cute characters. Always. I suspect if she was the superhero star of an action thriller, she would play it cute. Maybe that is all she can do. I have a lot of trouble with most of her movies because I don't find her the least attractive or interesting. I almost never like cute in people over the age of 3 or 4. And romantic comedies are a hard genre to write/direct because of the shortage of plot lines and twists. So, all and all, I was prepared to hate my way through it just to watch Kevin Kline.

Fun fact: When Mr. Kline plays in a straight up comedy. he has a mustache. When in a drama (even in it has comedic elements) he is clean shaven. His choice.

Well, the basic plot was transparent. Meg was reliably cute. Kevin was reliably superb and his character was not what one thinks of when "male lead in romantic comedy" is spoken. He was good enough that he elevated a watchable movie to entertaining movie. He made it a 3 out of 5.