Camouflage

2001

Action / Comedy

12
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 17%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 17% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 4.6/10 10 2376 2.4K

detective dark comedy

Plot summary

Marty Mackenzie is an unsuccessful stage actor who takes an interest in private investigating. He takes a job working with Jack Potter, a crusty private eye. They both take a case in Beaver Ridge, a seedy small town where a murder is being planned against a rich gravel pit owner. Marty realizes that private investigating is not as it seemed to be.

Director

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James Keach

Top cast

Belinda Montgomery Photo
Belinda Montgomery as Diane
Marya Delver Photo
Marya Delver as Lori
Patrick Warburton Photo
Patrick Warburton as Horace Tutt, Junior
Fred Henderson Photo
Fred Henderson as Anthony
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1 hr 36 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by lanechaffin-964-63190 6 / 10

Why you might want to watch

The main draw is of course Nielsen, here playing Jack Potter, a grizzled LA private eye contemplating retirement. He is paired with the youthful Munro who wants to learn how to be a real PI. The best thing in this movie is Vanessa Angel, in her prime. The cast is pretty good actually, with William Forsythe playing the obstinate, pony-tailed sheriff and Patrick Warburton also on board. The problems: The movie just isn't that funny. The style here is a little different than Wrongly Accused. But it somewhat succeeds in delivering a watchable comedy. Temper your expectations because it is not Wrongly Accused. And the writing could be better. Munro wasn't bad, but he hogs the screen when what you really want to see is Leslie. And Vanessa. I'm kind of back and forth between a rating of 5 and 6. I basically liked it.
Reviewed by mark.waltz 2 / 10

This gun shouldn't be naked. It should have been invisible.

I never thought I'd say this, but this Leslie Nielsen comedy is actually worse than "Repossessed", the parody of "The Exorcist" that came and flatlined a decade before this did and nearly put Nielsen back on the list of actors whose career was in danger of being more unpopular than pea soup. Fortunately Nielsen made more wise choices than bad ones, but choosing this film was not one of the former. Perhaps not his fault because gag comedy is probably the most difficult to predict, and while he has the timing, in this case, those gags land like timed stink bombs. He's paired with young Lochlyn Munro as an actor researching a part as a private investigator and aides Nielsen with a murder investigation.Little spark is ignited by Vanessa Angel as the love interest, and groans, not laughs, come out of the string of bad puns and malapropisms and metaphors that Nielsen rattles off one after another. After the success of "The Naked Gun", a slew of horrible similar style films came out that flopped critically and often commercially. By the time this came out, the genre of verbal comedy had seen it nadir, and the crudeness of much of the dialog brings on groans not giggles. Interesting element to see AND hear Patrick Warburton, the voice of handicapped Joe Swanson on "Family Guy". A few reluctant chuckles doesn't change the fact that this is wretched, although stage actor Tom Aldredge does get laughs with every lime he has as the wheelchair bound Mr. Pond and raises this up one notch.
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