Death Becomes Her
DEATH BECOMES HER (PG)
D: Robert Zemeckis
Universal (Robert Zemeckis & Steve
Starkey)
USA 🇺🇸 1992
104 mins
Fantasy/Comedy
W: Martin Donovan & David
Koepp
DP: Dean Cundey
Ed: Arthur Schmidt
Mus: Alan Silvestri
PD: Rick Carter
Cos: Joanna Johnston
Meryl Streep (Madeline Ashton), Bruce Willis
(Ernest Melville), Goldie Hawn (Helen Sharp), Isabella Rossellini (Lisle Von Rhuman), Sydney Pollack (Doctor), Ian Ogilvy (Chagall), Adam Storke (Dakota), Nancy Fish
(Rose)
A cosmetic comedy, looking good but ultimately
it's quite shallow and empty.
Two feuding women fight over a potion which
brings about eternal youth, which has a downside when they're both murdered and come back from the dead.
A better movie was wasted here, but it must be
said that the visual effects are absolutely brilliant. It's also quite fun to see Bruce Willis send up his tough guy image by playing against type as a complete wimp. Streep and
Hawn are good, but the script really needed to be better, especially in the later stages.
6/10
