Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site uokvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uokvax!lmaher From: lmaher@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Best Defense: Worst Review - (nf) Message-ID: <3900052@uokvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Aug-84 23:43:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uokvax.3900052 Posted: Wed Aug 8 23:43:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Aug-84 06:51:31 EDT Lines: 20 Nf-ID: #N:uokvax:3900052:000:744 Nf-From: uokvax!lmaher Aug 8 22:43:00 1984 #N:uokvax:3900052:000:744 uokvax!lmaher Aug 8 22:43:00 1984 If you really loved the TV commercials for _Best Defense_, then maybe you'll really love the movie. After all, the funniest parts were the ones shown on TV. It doesn't get any better. This certainly doesn't hold a candle to Murphy's previous two films, or even to Dudley Moore's. The characters are not appealing, the plot is predictable, and even the clever split-scene climax is a foregone conclusion. The only bright spot in the whole movie is the excessively laid-back California Industrial Spy ("Like, give me the plans or I'll blow your brains out. That'd be a bummer, like wouldn't it, now?") On my scale, it gets a see-it-only-if-you-were-going-to-no- matter-what-I-said. Carl ..!ctvax!uokvax!lmaher