Out Of Sight

Reviewed by: Connie Mack

July 6, 1998

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belated sidenote re: Out of Sight (only 'cause each time I laboriously rewrote my critique last week, couldn't post the damn thing) -- Found I enjoyed it tremendously. Lopez may be an airhead, but she's just what the doctor ordered for this film. Our local reviewer (@Syd, Woodstock Times) said that Clooney's character tended to look smarter than he was, which was right on the mark. He also said that SS kept the more gratuitous violence just out of range/focus, almost as if the camera were averting its eyes.

I love Soderburg's style, and had fun with this light little movie. Not to mention it was a fairly intemperate day here, and I was wearing my Lycra/cotton black Gap trousers (huggysnuggy in all the right places), black velvet flats and a fitted black/ecru suitjacket. I donned my black eyeshaders and hipslinked my way to the car under that amber marble of sun above. Could pretend (until I looked in a mirror -- where Irish eyes and pale skin are smiling) that I was a J. Lopezian sticking to myself in the beastly Floridian climate, sucking in humid-itized air along with my Marlboro Longs, ready to neck-pop the next guy that looked at me crossways.

Hey, fantasies ain't just for breakfast anymore.

 

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