Shooting Elizabeth

Stars: Jeff Goldblum (Deep Cover, The Favor, The Watch, and the Very Big Fish, The Fly, Into the Night), Mimi Rogers (Dark Horse, The Rapture, Someone to Watch Over Me). Howard Pigeon (Goldblum) has a problem: his wife Elizabeth (Rogers). She doesn't want him to touch her. She criticizes him for everything. She belittles him in front of friends. Which is why Howard decides to pop her one: permanently. Offering a second honeymoon to his wife, Howard takes Elizabeth to the Spanish coast, where he proceeds to buy a gun and plan the murder in their hotel room. But a small hitch occurs: while Howard suddenly changes his mind, Elizabeth disappears. The evidence points to foul play by Howard, and he must find his wife to prove his innocence. The first third of the film is loads of fun as Goldblum and Rogers complement one another perfectly as the squabbling couple. But after Rogers departs, Goldblum is left playing straight man to himself and the film spirals into a lazy downward spin with no decent secondary characters to take the missing Rogers' place. To make matters worse, the finale moves from the realm of comedy into uncomfortable drama--as buried issues come to the forefront for the Pigeons. Ultimately, Shooting Elizabeth is yet another inadequate vehicle for the underrated comic talents of Jeff Goldblum. Audience: Jeff Goldblum fans.