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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 24420
Released: January 11, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Action film superstar Bo Laramie (Cole Hauser) seems to have it all: beautiful wife, adoring son and a Malibu beach house. But his newfound fame comes with a price Â? heÂ's the target of paparazzi bent on making Bo and his loved ones fodder for the tabloids. Led by Â"superstarÂ" photographer, Rex (Tom Sizemore), the paparazzi become increasingly relentless, until one night their ruthless actions turn Bo and his family into victims of a terrible accident. With the police unable to help, Bo seeks vengeance on his own Â? and the paparazzi start fallingÂ...one by one.
Description of Paparazzi (Widescreen Edition):
Looking for a movie in which the "good guy" gets away with murder? Then Paparazzi is just for you -- a critically maligned, morally repugnant yet primitively satisfying thriller in which a rising action star (Cole Hauser) gets revenge on the tabloid photographers who stalk him every day, ruining his private life and nearly killing his wife (Robin Tunney) and young son. Coproduced by Mel Gibson (who makes a cameo appearance, along with Vince Vaughn, Chris Rock, and Matthew McConaughey), this is precisely the kind of pulp that Gibson starred in during the '80s and '90s, and you can bet he relished the premise, in which the most ruthless celebrity shutterbug (Tom Sizemore, at his most despicable) becomes the victim of his own corrupted ethics. Hauser's father, the great B-movie villain Wings Hauser, made a career out of crap like this, and his son brings a kind of foul integrity to his leading-man role while Dennis Farina channels Columbo as a detective on the prowl. As exploitative potboilers go, Paparazzi may be sick, but at least it's entertaining. --Jeff Shannon
Paparazzi (Widescreen Edition) Reviews:
Lights Camera and A lot of Action! 
2009-09-15 - Cole Hauser is not just any superstar he is also very humble, handsome, smart, clever, and a loving husband and father.
He is fantastic is this enough, is enough already heart racing thriller! Just how much can one person endure when greed and revenge is the fuel to their fire. Watch and see how three men try to out smart Cole Hauser who will come out on top?
america's critic 
2009-09-12 - movie really puts it down how psycho the paparizzi are i learned a few things from this one by the way the paparazzi would get popped if it was me this movie gets 3* it was ok rent it at the least!!
oh look at me i'm a celebrity and my life is so hard 
2009-04-23 - Self indulgent crap at it's finest
Everyone dreams of being rich and famous but what those people who dream like that don't realize is the very second you become filthy rich and famous your private life is gone.
An actor called Bo quickly discovers this as he goes from a nobody to a big shot overpaid actor with a huge mansion and tons of adoring fans. He has the paparazzi follow him everywhere he goes and those scumbags stoup so low as to take pictures of his son and his wife in her home but they finally reach their breaking point when they cause Bo to get into an accident severely injuring his son. Bo and his wife survive but Bo is so mad that he begins to take matters in his own hand and unleash his rage on the paparazzi that caused him to get into the accident. Man what an original plot
The one thing that drives me crazy about this movie is how they want us to feel sorry for these actors being photographed. Of all the problems in this world they only thing they have to worry about is people taking their pictures and apparently that's too much for them?
These actors make a ridiculous amounts of money and live in mansions and somehow we're suppose to feel sorry for them when they have their pictures taken? Give me a break. You're celebrities, people want to see pictures of you so if you don't want them to take pictures of you then do what Halle Berry did with "Catwoman" and ruin your career so you won't be a celebrity anymore and the paparazzo will leave you alone.
I have a problem with L.A. traffic but you don't see me making a movie about how hard it is to be in traffic. The movie has an interesting premise but it's really hard to feel sorry for someone when they make millions for working on a movie for just 2 months and live in a huge mansion. If the movie had been about an everyday man that gets into an accident and plots revenge then I may have showed some interest but it's not. If you want to make a movie showing how hard people are living then please make a movie about people we care about not some big headed actor whose only problem in life is having his freaking picture taking.
-I love B movies as much as the next 23 year old with too much time on their hands but this movie is just bad. The characters are flat and boring and unless you've had a wish of seeing Tom Sizemore get beat up in a movie then there's really no need to watch this self indulgent crap
Hollywood's Revenge 
2009-04-04 - This is Hollywood's revenge movie against the Paparazzi, those goon photographers obsessed with getting celebrities' pictures at all costs, totally invading their privacy and often using the pictures in a dishonest way to invent gossipy stories for the tabloids.
This was an easy call for Hollywood filmmakers because who was going to side against them in this film? The paparazzi, led by Tom Sizemore's character, is shown to be as sleazy and unethical as could be. So what you wind you up with a basic revenge story, nothing new or earthshaking but almost always entertaining in whatever form.
In this film, the photo guys mess up and the victim - an actor (Cole Hauser) - takes revenge by going after them. In the process, we see how he does it and along the way are treated to some amusing cameos by Mel Gibson, Chris Rock and Matthew McConaughey. Yeah, it's kind of a low-brow revenge flick, but it works.
An Awesome Film!!!
2009-04-04 - This is a really good movie that shows the negatives of being an actor. After 4 paparazzi photographers cause Bo Laramie and his family to be in an awful car crash, Bo hunts them down and gets his revenge. Detective Burton investigates, but I think he wants Bo to have his revenge. I highly recommend PAPARAZZI!!!
