SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Youkilledmypine Amazingly the little known Kyle Chandler is now playing a major role in Peter Jackson's King Kong. So perhaps now Angel's Dance will get minor recognition. Featuring Backbeat's Sheryl Lee and the jobbing James Belushi (as potential victim and professional hit-man respectively) this small B-picture is surprisingly watchable and at times darkly humouress.Opening with Jon Polito (in a familiar role established better in Miller's Crossing) sending a trainee hit-man to go with the best in the business to learn the ropes. For 'The Rose' (Belushi) this means teaching Tony (Chandler) to let go of any morals he once had and picks a random name from a phone book as the target. Neither one of them could predict that the target (Lee) would fight back with terminal force.Offbeat, quirky and with some decent action scenes (and some good costumes to boot) this is yet another film that won't be seen by most, but will be appreciated by most that do. Surely Belushi is long over due another half decent role like this, perhaps Tarantino will remember him in years to come...

gazineo-1 Dissapointing action movie with an interesting premise: a young Mafia would-to-be killer (Chandler) must demonstrate to his boss that he is a good man for the service so he goes to California to take some lessons with a very known professional killer (Beluschi). First and most important task: to kill a young woman (Lee) that is a completely strange for all of them. But is she a easy target? The movie goes on and on based upon this principal idea but the result is just bad routine; even the weird twist at the end does not save the movie. Good performance by Chandler. I give this a 4 (four).

tedg Spoilers herein.I do think this little bit of silliness is worth watching. The reason is that it targets a specific flavor of quirkiness. Nothing unusual there. But it ruthlessly sticks to that clear focus of quirk. Perhaps it helps that the writer is also the director. Perhaps it helps that the writer's sweet spot is precisely where Murray lives. No matter. It works because the world it creates has coherence. It becomes real, and then becomes leverageable for the humor to exploit. I imagine this project was too unimportant for the studio bosses to get in there and scramble it all around. The clarity of this project is mirrored in the clarity with which Angelica acts. She studies, grounds her intuition and acts with commitment. We can too until the story slides a bit at the end in an unexpected way.Ted's evaluation: 3 of 4 -- Worth watching

George Parker "Angel's Dance" features Belushi as the hitman's guru who tests a young protege with an assignment to "hit" a beautiful but freaky woman, Angel (Lee), selected at random. Both get more than they bargained for in this darkish comedy with some action and lots of quirky humor. The film is fresh in the beginning, languishes in the middle, and pulls itself together in the end making for a lukewarm watch overall with some deliciously sardonic tongue-in-cheek humor. An okay small screen watch for channel surfers looking for comedy/action.