Paparazzi

i LOVED seeing those bad guys-a.k.a. paparazzi get taken down

Good film exposing fake news and what length they go to create a story

What a wonderful opportunity wasted here!

It's a surprise that this was even released by Fox. There are straight to DVD titles that are better than this.

Mad-Melin tuottama paparazzien kyykytysfantasia! Elokuvan paparazzit ovat niin yksiulotteisesti saastoja että ei voi kun nauraa. Levoton leffa! :D

I have been reading some critic reviews but the length some of these paparazzi's go to only motivates someone to make movies like these..

Surprisingly good movie. Great style, nicely made, and great performances from Hauser and Sizemore.

I found myself getting emotionally invested early on in "Paparazzi", but in the end I was disappointed by how shallow it all was. The plot follows a rising action star named Bo Laramie (Cole Hauser) being harassed by paparazzi photographers. These slimeballs, Rex (Tom Sizemore), Wendell (Daniel Baldwin), Leonard (Tom Hollander) and Kevin (Kevin Gage) harass the actor and his family until Bo has had enough. After a creepy encounter where Rex is shooting pictures of Bo's young son Zach (Blake Bryan), Bo punches him in the face and is caught on camera. After an expensive lawsuit, it's become personal. Bo and the photographers start taking personal jabs at each other until disaster strikes. While being harassed by the paparazzi, Bo and his family get into a severe car crash. Bo's wife Abby (Robin Tunney) is left seriously injured and their son is now in a coma, while the people responsible for the accident gleefully take pictures to sell to the highest bidder. When Bo accidentally causes one of the photographers to wipe out on his motorcycle and fall to his death, he realizes that he might just get satisfaction for the pain that's been thrust upon him by killing the people responsible! Despite this really nutty premise, the film really isn't what you would expect from one of these revenge fantasies. At first, you think it's going to deliver in the same way that such classics of the genre like "Commando" or "Taken" do because the antagonists are evil to a cartoonish level. They're snapping pictures of the couple during intimate moments, they're blackmailing people, they're drug users, they are tied into all sorts of illegal business, they're slimy when it comes to picking up chicks and one of them is a rapist too. Basically, you wouldn't shed a tear if these guys found themselves dead. So in most of these movies, the hero gets wronged and suffers a great tragedy. He then goes about against the justice system that has failed him and gets satisfaction by either pumping the evildoers full of lead or (even better) giving them ironic deaths, much to the audience's satisfaction. That's basically what's going on here, but the tragedy, it isn't that tragic. Well, it should be because we've got a young boy in a coma and a wife that's scarred for life, but the movie is so over-the-top when it comes to the photographers that you can never take it seriously. As for the revenge aspect, well you can never quite cheer for Bo. I mean sure he gets his revenge, but it's never really satisfying. A frame-up here, an accidental death there. There's one kill that is actually quite disturbing when you think of it too much and you really start losing sympathy for the guy. Sure, the movie paints it as a nice, quick and clean kill but you just know that in real life, beating someone with a blunt object, to death nonetheless is pretty horrific. You start cheering for the cop that's investigating these suspicious looking deaths because you just want to see everyone involved thrown in jail (but he's either related to inspector Clouseau or secretly approves of the killings because he's not very good at it). The actions in the film just don't feel justified and it isn't dramatic enough or exploitation-y enough to satisfy. As I wrote earlier at first the movie was emotionally effective and I did find myself invested in the story but as it went on, I found myself caring less and less. You'll get more enjoyment out of the cameos by celebrities (hey, check it out, it's Matthew McConaughey playing himself!) than the story. Particularly entertaining/ironic is Mel Gibson (who produced the film), who can be seen waiting to go to anger management class. "Paparazzi" doesn't have any real insights into the world of cheap tabloids and as a revenge fantasy, it's not particularly inspired either. Skip this one. (On Dvd, December 12, 2013)

fantastic piece of work. I'm surprised there aren't more movies like this dealing with absolute garbage of the earth like paparazzi and tabloid junkies.

From the mind of Mel Gibson comes the sleaziness of paparazzi photography that devolves into a grade-B thriller fantasy that Russell Crowe would be proud of and it helps that Cole Hauser's charisma makes for cheap, fun entertainment. B.