Movie Review: CLICK
Now this is more the sort of role I stereotype Adam Sandler in. Click is one of those bizarre movies that materialize now and again in the Hollywood mind. It’s totally off the wall and has no intention of meshing with reality. Occasionally one of those movies works and some of them, like Click, work when you are in a certain mood but on nights when you are not in that mood they leave you wondering why you wasted your time. I’m sure you know what I am talking about and will be able to pick the mood to watch this movie in. Then you’ll enjoy it.
I think there are problems with the script logic but then logic is not what this kind of movie is on about anyway. Done in a different way you could call this a science fiction movie. A guy is given a machine that can fast forward, freeze frame, replay and skip time sequences in ‘reality’. Oddly, the guy at the department store who gives, not ‘sells’ this piece of equipment turns out to be an angel, no, it’s not a Christmas movie. Well humour has a logic of its own. the guy in the store who turns out to be the angel of death, well that is all garbage from the logic point of view but in the movie it works ok. Christopher Walken as the angel seems to change jobs somewhere along the line and sort of switches occasionally from funny to sinister but we get the impression he is stuck in funny mode and is funny sinister sometimes, or did he want to be sinister funny?.
The acting? I think to measure the acting I would have to know how these people are in real life and find out how difficult it would be for that person to become the one on screen. I have no way of doing that so I won’t guess at the acting. In a movie like ‘Something’s Gotta Give’ I’m happy to venture a verdict of brilliance but here it’s not obvious. Maybe Adam Sandler is really like that. Christopher Walken has always had a face like an enigma and here it is like an enigma pretending not to be an enigma but turning out to be one of the greatest enigmas in the end. Watch the movie to find out which enigma that is.
I can’t resist this – I hope it clicks with you.