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From: lmaher@uokvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Best Defense: Worst Review - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 8-Aug-84 23:43:00 EDT
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Nf-From: uokvax!lmaher    Aug  8 22:43:00 1984

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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
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