Heartbreakers | | Cast : | Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Gene Hackman | | Director : | David Mirkin | | Studio : | MGM/UA Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | March 23, 2001 | | DVD Released Date : | April 02, 2002 | | Language : | Spanish (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 30, 2005 | | Summary | Don't go breaking my heart | Content
 | Question: What happens if you cross THE STING, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS and two sexy sirens? Answer: I don't know, but I'd like to see it. But, it looks like this is what was attempted with the trite film HEARTBREAKERS. But, when the credits have run all that is left behind is the two sexy sirens. The storyline is simply ridiculous, based on sex overcoming all else. Jennifer Love Hewitt with her ample cleavage and adorable figure is perfect in her role as the ample cleavage and adorable figure girl but don't look for any character growth...
Sigourney Weaver is also gorgeous but is occasionally adding embarrassment to her career (singing "Back in the USSR" in a horrid Russian accent?). Gene Hackman who always adds respect to every film he is involved with, fails to do so with this, his most foolish role to date. So, this film has some nice eye candy but a story line you could drive a planet through. The DVD has a nice audio/video transfer and a press junket style making of documentary... |
| Rating | | | Date | July 03, 2005 | | Summary | Not bad, although I think I'm in a minority | Content
| I bought this film absolutely ages ago, and have only just got around to watching it. I was quite surprised that Jennifer Love Hewitt (Paige) & Sigourney Weaver (Max) made such a good pairing in the movie, a great mother & daughter team. Others considered for their roles were: Cameron Diaz, Alicia Silverstone, Cher and Anjelica Huston. (Anjelica & Cher obviously for the mother roles!)
I hate JLH with a passion, probably cos she wears as little as possible throughout, and will have every guy's tongue hanging out. And she plays the same character in every movie. She cannot play another character. Rant over.
Sigourney Weaver, Gene Hackman, & Ray Liotta were outstanding in this movie, considering what little they had to work with. Jason Lee was fabulous as ever, he can't do anything wrong! :) And Sigourney was very brave to get up & sing "Back In The USSR" in a Russian restaurant. (I still don't understand why she was pretending to be Russian.)
There's a lot of establishing shots in this, which other reviewers have spoken about, but what's amazing is, that for the amount of car scenes there are, JLH never drove in any of the car scenes.
The card handling that JLH does in the restaurant (saying it relaxes her) was taught to her by stage magician Ricky Jay. She actually learned more tricks than that, but was unable to do them in the movie because she broke her finger. The most expensive shot in the movie was when JLH leaned against the car to talk to Ray Liotta near the end of the movie. Because it was cold on set, she had a white sweatshirt around her waist that was in the shot, and it had to be digitally taken out.
Overall, this film has everything a film needs to have, and that's mainly a totally implausible storyline, and a happy ending, which really didn't work well considering the rest of the film. OK, I'm kidding (am I?) The film is OK, but not really worth a look unless you're a JLH fan. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 13, 2005 | | Summary | What an embarrassment... | Content
| This movie was completely irritating. Here are ten (10) observations:
1. Who ever told Jennifer Love Hewett she could act?
2. Nothing really happens in this film. It's one establishing shot after another, after another. We see characters opening and closing doors, getting in and out of automobiles, walking into restaurants... for about two hours.
3. The dialogue is largely meaningless. It's like watching people speak in esperanto or some language entirely foreign to earth. This is because:
4. The characters in this film are completely the figment of someone's imagination, with no roots in reality. If anyone could relate to the characters that Ray Liotta, Sigourney Weaver, Love Hewett or Gene Hackman portrayed, I'd certainly like to interview them for "Sixty Minutes".
5. After about forty minutes into the film, Sigourney Weaver breaks into song. I hoped that her rendition of "Back in the USSR" was the low point of the film, but unfortunately, I was wrong.
6. The whole concept behind this film was rather formulaic, with a rather poor foundation. The end result is something from the bizarro world, like a $450,000.00 home built from clapboard and thrown-out furniture crates.
7. For the last hour or so, the film unravels spectacularly, much like a burning Zeplin heading down to earth. However, this film was not as bad as "AI: Artificial Intelligence", because that film was in a class of awfulness all by itself. Even so, it was still a hateful experience to watch "Heartbreakers".
8. I hope that in the future, someone will purchase this film, dispense with all the dialogue, and rearrange each scene into a more credible story, a la Woody Allen's "What's Up Tiger Lilly".
9. One nice thing about the movie is that you can leave the dvd running, and take a long break to get something to eat, come back to watch the movie, and not really miss anything.
10. Would I recommend "Heartbreakers" to my friends? Sure.. Anything's better than having to sit through "The English Patient"!
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| Rating | | | Date | April 28, 2005 | | Summary | Cute movie. | Content
| I enjoyed this movie. I'm not a big fan of Love Hewitt, but this movie entertained me. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 19, 2005 | | Summary | What a Stupid Movie! | Content
| Banal, boring script, primitive stereotypes and cliches, unfunny comedy, dumb humor. This is probably the worst role and performance by Gene Hackman in his entire career. OK, I am giving it 2 starts rather than one because I like Jen Hewitt. |
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