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Release Date: 16 March, 2004 Retail Price: $9.98 OUR Price: $9.98 You SAVE: $0.00! Cast: Complete Cast (8 total) |
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Nice, average whodunnit
"Uncovered" is a lot like its lead actress, Kate Beckinsdale, sort of light and easy on the eyes. The story is loosely based on Arturo Perez-Reverte's book "The Flanders Panel" and centers around a 16th century Dutch painting, "The Chess Game," that Beckinsdale's character is restoring so it can be sold at auction. When she uncovers a secret inscription, "Who killed the knight?" hidden under a layer of paint, she starts researching the painting to find out what it all means. But as she works, she becomes more than a little distracted by the growing pile of corpses of people associated with the painting, and a young gypsy chess expert enlisted to help with part of the puzzel.
It all goes down relatively quickly and easily, sort of like the whipped cream on the pastry Beckinsdale and the gypsy chess expert share during a sloppy kiss on the street after their first night together, and about as dangerous. Barcelona, the city where the film is set, also comes off really well -- picturesque old streets, and some architectural treasure by Gaudi around every corner. The oddest thing though is that, to judge by the film, all the inhabitants of Barcelona are actually English -- one hears almost no Spanish or Catalan in the entire film. Fans of Perez-Reverte, looking for a decent adaptation of one of his fine books, are going to be disappointed, though perhaps less so than with the disasterous "Ninth Gate" that was made from the novel "The Dumas Club."
Almost a "Murder She Wrote" episode.
Kate Beckinsdale's character, with all of her youthful God given beauty, has all the wisdom of Jessica Fletcher, when it comes to solving a centuries old crime, that somehow spills over into the 1990's. The story was much more complicated than it needed to be, but it was predictable and entertaining. A young and topless Kate Beckinsdale was a nice surprise as well.
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