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A Thousand Words (2012)


A Thousand Words



3/10




Starring
Eddie Murphy
Kerry Washington
Cliff Curtis
Clark Duke
Allison Janney
Ruby Dee


Directed by Brian Robbins

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so most definitely a moving picture is worth more than a million.

I’m sad to say I’m short of words when it comes to the movie A Thousand Words, because it comes off as a movie way below the Eddie Murphy standard.

The thing is, Eddie has lost it and he’s trying hard to get it back in my view, but a lot of the movies he is dropping are misses, I think he should consider a more serious role and not all these pure comedic movies, which make him and his acting look silly.

Eddie plays Jack McCall, a motor mouth who can talk people into doing what he wants. One day, he’s sent to get a trending religious figure for his publishing company.

He goes, says all he has to say, tells some lies, and then suddenly gets cursed (yeah, right). He goes home and in his backyard, he sees a tree — which appears out of the blue. Sad thing is, we actually see it grow out of the ground. It looks like one he saw in the religious man’s home.

He calls the man over to see the tree, and they notice that as he speaks, the leaves fall off. So what happens when all the leaves fall? What happens to Jack as he has to mind his words? Well, same as all the feel-good movies you and I have seen.

He loses his job because he can’t behave normally, his girl leaves him, and he finally learns what’s important in life.

The movie, mind you, was done in 2008 — four years before now — meaning it was made before Tower Heist, a film where Eddie Murphy’s performance was a great improvement. Due to some studio issues, including changes in marketing strategy and post-production, A Thousand Words ended up being released in 2012.

A Thousand Words is directed by Brian Robbins, who also worked with Murphy on Norbit and Meet Dave — both of which were as useless a watch as cinnamon is to the taste. Murphy was originally announced as a host for the 2012 Oscars but stepped down. The speculation is that it was due to scheduling conflicts and the poor reception of his recent films, so Billy Crystal returned to host instead.

The script for A Thousand Words is a shamble. If you’ve seen Liar Liar or other feel-good movies, then you’ve seen this before. Same trend, same ideology, different cast.

What a waste of time watching this movie was. I advise everyone not to join people like me who were unfortunate enough to have seen it.


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