The Chinese substitute prevents Nick from being recognized by his beloved wife Julie ( Stephanie Szostak), who is now seeing far too much of the solicitous Hayes for his liking for his part, Roy has long since become accustomed to turning heads as a busty babe.
Brooks would have no doubt gone for the comedy of having the two avatars onscreen far more frequently. Sent back to Earth to pursue some justice, they appear to each other, and most of the time to the audience, as themselves, though there are momentary glimpses of how they look to unsuspecting Earthlings: Nick is seen in the guise of “an old Chinese guy” ( James Hong), while the goateed and long-haired Roy has the stunning appearance of a blond bombshell (former Victoria’s Secret angel and Maxim No. At the outset, Ryan Reynolds‘ Boston cop Nick is murdered by his partner Hayes ( Kevin Bacon) over some pieces of the gold, whereupon Nick is transported to a kind of purgatory (not unlike the celestial one in Raoul Walsh‘s entertaining 1945 Jack Benny comedy The Horn Blows at Midnight) and paired with veteran Western sheriff Roy (Bridges). In fact, Brooks could have had a field day with an underplayed aspect of the basic premise. Perhaps if Mel Brooks could have been induced to make a big-screen comeback with a zombie genre send-up as a sort of companion piece to Spaceballs, we would have had something worth watching.
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That their plot to do so has to be one of the most cockamamie schemes ever cooked up by modern screenwriters - it has to do with the full reassembling of an ancient golden Staff of Jericho monument triggering a downpour of zombies, errr, deados, from the heavens - is not sufficiently embraced as ridiculous by director Robert Schwentke ( Red).
If Boston was feeling left out of the wave of cinematic civic destruction that has in recent times claimed New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, among others, Beantown now can proudly join the club, as cretins called “deados” give it quite a going-over as they stage their assault on humanity.
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