duaneincali joel goes too far in using movies to push his agenda. batman, seemingly hundreds of others. I won't state his agenda here, but I was wildly disappointed in this film. For a minute I thought I was watching carol Channing. That being said, again true to Joel, he gets good work out of actors. Hoffman is so over the top I think they needed a spaceship to get him out of the scenes. I would only suggest for the topic and deniro fiends. Makeup!!!

dlatham-65966 I was begged to watch this movie by a friend that said it is really good. It started out like a play adapted to the screen with a few bumps here and there. It picks up with a plot but it is full disjunctive and broken attempts at making sense. P S Hoffman really tries, but he cannot get this role off the ground. Bobby Milk does what he does, act great. But he has a very limited chances to pull off the role other than to follow a grievously poorly written script that pales in comparison to the direction of use on the back of a stool softener box. When Bobby get the stroke he it gets better, that way he does not have to read the bad lines nearly as much. In fact if everyone would have had a stroke I could have given this stinker 3 stars. The best part is the end, it is over.

FlashCallahan Walt Koontz, a homophobic guy, ends up with paralyzed vocal cords because of an unfortunate stroke.His therapy includes receiving singing lessons from a neighbour who is not only openly flamboyant but also a pre-op transgenderist.Both of them are equally prejudiced; Koontz against homosexuals and the neighbour against close-minded straight people...Also in a film like this, there has to be a sub plot about stolen money, because a sick homophobe and a drag queen bonding story just isn't enough is it? With Schumacher at the helm I was expecting a lot of neon and spandex thanks to a certain franchise, but this is the auteur who knows how to make a good movie and involve character arcs, rather than bowing down for the studio.Hoffman has never been better as the tortured queen who is desperate for better things, his performance is both moving, funny and sad, and unfortunately for De Niro rules the movie.But De Niro is fantastic playing someone affected by a CVA. His mannerism and gait are perfect, and some have said that he is doing his job half as$ed in this. That's their opinion, but I think it's his best performance since 'Heat'.The crime part of the film is where it fails. It has no real need to be in this sort of movie, and the final fifteen minutes of the film are just unnecessary for the two to bond a little more.It's not for every body, but it works and the performance of the two leads drag it up from the dull film it could have been..

Lee Eisenberg You know how comedies are supposed to make you laugh? Well, "Flawless" makes you laugh, but you're not laughing at what happens in the movie; you're laughing at the fact that the movie didn't come out very good. Certainly the idea of a homophobic cop having to make amends with a drag queen seems like it could make an interesting movie, but they didn't do it here. The whole thing just drags. The movie doesn't even really have any clever lines. Robert DeNiro should have known better than to star in this, and I think that we can all agree that Philip Seymour Hoffman did a much better job playing a gay person in "Capote".All in all, pathetic.