Dogma - LetterboxD Review

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It's been a long while since i've watched and "under appreciated" Dogma so I thought I'd give it another go... and to be honest... nothing has changed... I am most probably still under appreciating this...

By the Empire Magazine rule of reviews, 3 stars is till a recomendation and in the interests of "it might just be me" I have given this that exact rating... It's not that its bad, far from it... It probably passed the 5 laughs test to qualify it as funny... The story itself is certainly enough to keep you interested... Performances are largely very good... It's just coming to this as a huge fan of Kevin Smith's early works, it just didn't seem as good.

Chasing Amy does serious better than this... Clerks does offbeat better than this, Jay and Silent Bob does mainstream comedy better than this and Mallrats does downright funny far far better than this.

I mentioned the acting earlier... It's largely great. Alan Rickman, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Salma Hayek, Chris Rock, etc. etc. etc are all great. Linda Fiorentino isn't. I don't mind Fiorentino, she was good in MIB, great in The Last Seduction even. In this though, she's just boring, dull and thoroughly unlikable.

I'll probably get slaughtered for knocking such a highly regarded indie classic and that's fine... As subjective as comedy is, I just don't find Dogma funny, charming, interesting or for that matter, that good.

I gave this film a generous 3 stars out of 5!