Ovation (I) (2015) User Reviews

Donate to charity instead, please.

[Geeseherder · 1/10 · 8 October 2016]

James Denton, as great as he is, cannot save this Titanic ship of fools from sinking.

Meandering mush of a story, complemented by awful roles played by Jaglom's children. Lowlighted by a car crash of a performance by Tanna Frederick. She is the painful-to-watch center of this implosion.

Bad acting other than Denton. Bad plot that wandered like a hobo. Bad lighting from a DP who went to an online film school. Bad use of your time. Seriously, you could watch Johnny Depp in The Lone Ranger and that would be a better use of your time. Donate to charity instead, please. Think of how much better your rental dollars will be used.

More of the Same

[TheFearmakers · 3/10 · 26 January 2019]

These Henry Jaglom movies are all the same. The ones with real life girlfriend Tanna Frederick. There's always a semi famous actor cast as a guy who instantly falls in love with her character, and she has to fight him off, basically, and this doesn't do justice to the kind of character-actress that Frederick is, and should be portrayed as. She could be a fantastic friend-of-the-leading-lady in a mainstream feature, and steal it, perhaps. The problem is that Henry puts her too much up front, with every character surrounding her constantly propping her up.

This movie is better than any of the "Maggie Chase" films also including Queen of the Lot and Hollywood Dreams. Jaglom's daughter, Sabrina Jaglom, is and has always been a gorgeous girl, but even she's not given the push that's needed to use these kind of movies as Actor Reels for bigger and better things.