![]() Never mind that the ads made it look like nothing more than a CGI demo reel never mind that the film's closest commodity to a box office draw was the sometimes-hot-and-usually-cold Gerard Butler never mind that the picture, with its largely whitewashed cast, arrived in the midst of heated debates about the lack of diversity in Hollywood and never mind that these types of movies have been notorious underachievers as of late (e.g. ![]() Much hilarity ensued this past February when Gods of Egypt proved to be a flop of atomic-bomb proportions and director Alex Proyas took to Twitter to blame its failure on the critics (aka "diseased vultures"). But Lowe's surface performance is distracting and eliminates much of the suspense necessary to keep this sort of grasping Hitchcock wannabe afloat.īlu-ray extras consist of an interview with Koepp and the trailer. Spader does good work (although his transformation from a repressed square to a drunken criminal is never believable), and even better is Christian Clemenson as his brother, a dope-smoking layabout who rises to the occasion in unexpected ways. At first, Michael succumbs to his new buddy's seductive charm and tags along on various risky adventures, only realizing after it's too late that Alex might be a psychopath. The story, one of the first penned by David Koepp (who would become Hollywood's go-to guy for blockbusters like Jurassic Park, Spider-Man and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), is passable: Mild-mannered yuppie Michael (James Spader), dealing with harassment at work and faced with a marriage he doesn't want, meets Alex (Lowe), a free spirit who embraces life and won't back down from any situation (shades of the later Fight Club). I believed them at the time and still do - of course, if the film were more compelling, there would be no need to even ponder this point. It also forced the makers of Bad Influence to flatly state that the scenes prominently featuring videos in their movie were not later added to the script as an in-joke or to capitalize on the controversy. ![]() Although the girl was of legal age in Georgia, the fallout involving both this incident and another recorded tryst - this one a threesome - led to a temporary tarnishing of his image. ![]() One of the big scandal-sheet stories of the late 1980s involved the surfacing of a videocassette that showed Rob Lowe's 1988 dalliance with a 16-year-old girl he met during the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta. Rob Lowe in Bad Influence (Photo: Shout! Factory)īAD INFLUENCE (1990). ![]()
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