Cover
By DerrikKyle on March 11, 2010, 10:27 am
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Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 13-MAY-2008
Media Type: DVD
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will someone please give the talented actress vivica fox a good role so she won’t have to yawn her way through this tiresome, wannabe provocative message movie? leon, you’re worth more. bill duke, you too. and how they got lou gossett, jr., a fabulous actor by any estimation, to sign on for this project is beyond me. cover was the most boring, uninvolving movie i’ve seen in a long time — ever since eyes closed tight, sorry, eyes wide shut. a woman is happily married with a child. they move to another city. she has a friend in town who takes her to a great church (an excuse to put patti labelle in the movie, but she’s always welcome). discovers that her husband is interested in more than just her. i guess the way wifey discovers her husband’s extracurricular activities is supposed to be a plot twist, but it was just a straight line, and a stupid straight line at that. if all bill duke wanted to do was make a movie about how we should all “be careful” with our sexual partners, he could have done a public service announcement with more pizzazz. if you liked the movie “trois” (ugh!), you’ll like this. if you rose above “trois”, you’ll give this flick the bum’s rush — as i wish i had.
Rating: 1 / 5
Overall I thought the movie had a good message but it could have been presented better. It seems as if everything was squeezed together.
Rating: 2 / 5
**1/2
Bill Duke`s “Cover” is like an urbanized, African-American version of “Brokeback Mountain” – only this time told from the viewpoint of the initially clueless spouse rather than the two male lovers. Aunjanue Ellis plays a deeply religious woman whose life and marriage fall apart when she discovers that her husband (Razaaq Adoti) is actually a closeted homosexual. This leads to a great deal of emotional trauma for both the wife and the husband – as well as to a patently absurd and wholly unnecessary murder subplot that’s used to frame the story.
There’s no question that this is a well-meaning and well-intentioned film, but its attempt to deal honestly with a serious social issue all too often falls victim to slickery and overwrought melodramatics. Many a scene will have you rolling your eyes in incredulity and disbelief, even while conceding that some of the points the movie is making are indeed insightful and valid. And, commendably, the movie does give a fair hearing to each of its genuinely torn and conflicted characters. But an overall air of amateurishness – both in the performances (even from such acting stalwarts as Louis Gossett Jr. and “Amen”‘s Clifton Davis) and in the direction – keeps it from having the impact it clearly wishes to have.
All in all, a missed opportunity.
Rating: 2 / 5
I won’t go overboard with the praises, but I would have to say that this movie was way better than I thought it would be. It deals with a lot of subjects that the black community is afraid or unwilling to discuss. Bill Duke (The Director) brings these subjects to the light and puts it right in your face. I do agree that the murder plot within this story was kind of distracting at times, but it all came together eventually, and it ultimately makes you re-think about the life you’ve led and who your sexual partners are. It sheds light on HIV and being tested, and it also exposes the “DL” lifestyle with black men who are secretly homosexual men who lead perfectly “normal” married hetrosexual lives in public, but they also secretly sleep with men. This movie also reveals that the reason for this behavior is that they are really afraid to be exposed because of the ridicule and persecution that they face from not only the community, but the church itself as well. This is definitely a topic that nobody wanted to touch, so I applaude Bill Duke for having the courage to go there. Let me just say that this movie is told in flashback fashion, so you must be paying close attention. Plus, this movie has an all star cast basically and you’ll know what I mean if you watch a lot of black Cinema. There’s Vivica A. Fox, Louis Gossest Jr., Clifton Davis (from Amen), Aunjanue Ellis, Paula Jai Parker and Leon (who I forgot was actually capable of real acting instead of just doing more biographies of singers and singing groups). This movie starts off with a woman named Valerie Maas being interrogated in the police station about a murder. The thing is, I think they mislead you intentionally into thinking the murder is her own husband, but in reality it’s one of her husband’s lover who’s actually been murdered. I do have to get one gripe off my chest though, I do find it misleading that Dutch had been secretly sleeping with Ryan Chambers and his friend Kevin obviously (from my understanding of the movie anyway) but after he’s caught by his wife Valerie she asks him if he used protection, and he admits not all the time or something to that effect. O.K! We find out that Ryan is HIV positive by his own admission, but somehow, after Dutch and Valerie both get tested the test come back negative. I don’t see that was possible if he was messing around with Ryan too, and he obviously was by what they showed us. I had to get that out because it really bothered me that he was caught messing with an HIV positive man, but neither him or his wife was infected…I DON’T BUY THAT! However, with that said, it was a good movie. I wish I knew what happend to Monica (Kevin’s wife) after her breakdown because they don’t show her again.
Rating: 3 / 5
The story line and actors sucked in this movie. I fast forwarded to the end.
Rating: 2 / 5