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List Price: $9.99 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 91095
Released: July 13, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Desire seduction betrayal..Every game has rules. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 06/21/2005 Starring: Melanie Griffith Hugh Dancy Run time: 83 minutes Rating: R
Description of Tempo:
Some agreeable Paris location shooting enhances the atmosphere of Tempo, a rather desperately titled thriller from the low-budget universe. Melanie Griffith, looking well preserved, is a highly paid courier for art smugglers (including Malcolm McDowell, in his smiling-panther form). She "keeps" a much younger man (Hugh Dancy) in her fabulous apartment, but he suddenly finds "the whole love at first sight thing" with an ex-pat cutie (Rachael Leigh Cook). The suspense plot, about a smuggling deal gone sour, is pretty flaccid, and the supposedly sexy stuff isn't very sexy. Even the romantic triangle doesn't cause that many problems. It's hard to know what Melanie Griffith is doing in this movie, although there are vestiges of some other kind of picture here--something about an older woman searching for meaning or lost youth, maybe. But that's gone, and what's left is negligible cable-TV fodder. --Robert Horton
Tempo Reviews:
Don't buy this 
2009-05-20 - I don't care what your type of movie is, I don't see how you will like this. These actors must have been desperate for money to make such a lame film. I gave it one star for landing such a well known cast in such a horrid film.
this movie is not up to speed
2009-05-08 - An interesting, but predictable twist centers this film. The three big name stars that are in this film - Melanie Griffith, Rachael Leigh Cook, and Hugh Dancy - all act mediocre in this film. Hugh Dancy is charming, and even shows off his rear behind in a shower scene, which should be enough to get his fangirls to see this film.
Hugh Dancy saves the movie 
2007-08-11 - This movie was really bad. The story seemed to be thrown together. The dialogue was not believable. The characters were underdeveloped. Melanie Griffith was terrible, Rachel Leigh Cook was terrible. The only worthwhile quality this movie had can be summed up in three little words: Hugh Dancy Naked. He's the most believable actor in this movie. He really does all a person can do with such awful dialogue, but this isn't his best performance. If you're not a Hugh Dancy fan, don't waste your time with this movie.
TEMPO SKIPS A BEAT
2006-01-12 - In this derivative, limp made for Canadian TV movie, Melanie Griffith stumbled through the role of a glitzy "courier" for obviously illegal products. She has a younger live-in stud (Hugh Dancy in a weak performance) and is sent on a secretive mission by Malcolm McDowell (he pops up in almost anything these days). Melanie also has a sleazy additional boss (played with absent malice by Art Malik) who screws up the McDowell deal and then demands eighty thousand dollars for the effort. Along comes lovely Rachael Leigh Cook (who deserves better than this) who suddenly becomes the true love of Dancy's miserable life. Dancy is such a spineless cad one can hardly feel sympathy for the miss the three of them end up in. It's all been done before and much much better. TEMPO is a composition without any heart.
thrills and romance 
2005-07-06 - when i first began watching this movie i thought what is going on all these lights and cars chasing each other but after i got
past that i thought it was a wonderful movie. melanie was ok and
rachel was amazing but hugh dancy was the most amazing one of all. i never expected to see him that way and to see that shower seen well......i'll let every one see it for themselves.
i think this movie was really great and who ever doesn't think
so should watch it again because maybe they fell asleep or some
thing because this movie was great.
