Show Movie R Review i THREE FUGITIVES J Ii t 4 k f L' L 1 i I R Rr rI r r ri r ri i f r i 1 t r. r ar r tL r Y 4 r. r e i A A I t I v 0 I 7 u o f c Y f 4 fc f f DO t tI t r tl 61 f. f f yC d x t. t w r t 4 is Y j 1 1 Y p 1 r. r W w 4 r ice ice- r r TV w by Mike Richan Staff Writer Nick Nolte and Martin Short star in this overdose of sweetness sweetness sweetness sweet sweet- ness from Touchstone Pictures those who brought you Three Men and a Baby Nolte is a recently paroled armed robber hes he's always behind behind behind be be- hind bars it seems who gets tangled up in Martin Shorts Short's bank heist on the first day of his release into the free world Short takes him hostage and the cops think the two are a team Nolte fights for vindication vindication vindication tion but Shorts Short's daughter a small mute and immeasurably ly cute schooler grade-schooler keeps Nolte around by speaking for forthe forthe forthe the first time in two years Dont go Everyone goes and the film ends The only palatable moments in this picture come from the comic genius of Martin Short Shor whose buffoonery as a thief and perfectly timed facial fadal expressions expressions expressions ex ex- ex- ex save the film from total fail failure ure Its It's too tob bad though that these moments come few and far between The voids are filled with sweet sticky-sweet honey dripped by lingering shots of the child sleeping weeping and posing Wherever the film is trying to togo togo togo go what it thought was an asset quickly gums it up and keeps it from telling any kind of compelling or at least interesting interesting interesting in in- story Awkward moments from James Earl Jones and Alan Ruck as police detectives and the keystone cops treatment police officers receive in this film are insanely aggravating This is a poor formula film which comes nowhere near the sum of its parts and barely barely barely bare bare- ly entertains pa past t the level of a mediocre television sit The one or two laughs from Short dont don't quite make up forthe forthe for forthe the rest of it the interim being contrivance manipulation tion and boredom |