The movie is being termed the worst career move by Bullock and will remain permanently etched in the memory of her fans as one of her badly played roles.
Sandra Bullock’s last hit, the romantic comedy “The Proposal”, is best remembered for her chemistry with co-star Ryan Reynolds. That movie had its moments and went on to prove that moviegoers like to see Sandra playing her natural best.
Viewers like to see her in roles that play down her femininity, be it any character that she is portraying. However, this time she seems to have gone awfully wrong.
Plot of the movie
The plot of “All About Steve” revolves around a crossword-puzzle constructor who stalks a man she just met across the country. The movie sees Bullock trying to fit into a role that is just not written for her and is singularly agonizing to project on screen. The weight of the movie seems to be just too much for her to carry alone.
The humor in the movie is cranky and relies heavily on inane subjects such as rape and babies born with three legs.
Bullock plays the absurdly-named Mary Magdalene Horowitz, who lives with her parents and builds crossword puzzles for a Sacramento newspaper. Mary’s parents try to hook her up with a news cameraman named Steve (Bradley Cooper). Her seemingly low expectations are crashed when she sees that he is very handsome and she instantly pounces upon him.
From here on she has a focused single-minded mania, and that is to follow Steve as he tours across the country filming the latest telegenic catastrophe.
Poor screen writing mars the movie
Not only the character of Mary is ill-written, her dressing style also puts you off as she comes in preposterous red patent leather boots with her hair tied in a ridiculous blond shag.
Most of the disgusting and unbearable stuff in “All About Steve” can be attributed to screenwriter Kim Barker. It is worth pondering upon as to why such people are paid for creating this kind of matter.
Bullock just sleepwalks through her role in a nonsensical plot and is not worth appreciating for even a single frame. Though she looks ravishing at 45, the character that she portrays is without doubt meant to be 10 or 15 years her junior.
On the other hand, Cooper, fresh from his last hit this summer, “The Hangover”, escapes largely safe and sound, and so does Thomas Haden Church, who lifts the movie in a cunning, hilarious reboot of the typical dumb blond.
After all the unusual twists and turns, the movie eventually ends in an appalling climax that involves a group of hearing-impaired children caught in a mine shaft.
Hard luck for Bullock this time, as there is no glimpse of her great acting skills in this one. We wonder what she was thinking when she did this movie. All in all, “All About Steve” is not a puzzle worth solving.
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