A two-hander action comedy in the vein of Midnight Run (1988), about an ex-F.B.I. Agent (Tommy Lee Jones) and an ex-mob lawyer in the Witness Protection Program (Morgan Freeman) having to put aside their petty rivalry on the golf course to fend off a mob hit. "Just Getting Started" was directed by Ron Shelton. It's his first film since 2003's and it shows that he isn't quite on his A game. For the actors, this is one of those films where it's obvious that everyone involved is in it for the paycheck. There is no life to this senior comedy, not whatsoever. Whats worse is that movie really goes down the drain in the final thirty minutes, when it suddenly becomes an action movie. Don't waste your time on it, because it is a laugh less comedy, an excitement-free action picture and an unromantic love story.<br/><br/>4/10 . . . is a pure Geezerpaloosa, through and through. For those folks into this sort of thing (mostly the geriatric crowd born in the 1800s and 1900s), JUST GETTING STARTED could just as easily be tagged as "Hope springs Eternal." Set and filmed in a Palm Springs Old Fogey Compound where no one wears Depends and Ancient Farts only croak having sex, JUST GETTING STARTED comes off as a Baby Boomer Fantasy where Millennials only exist as Go-Fers to their Extreme Elders, or ineffectual codger assassins. No one has a care in their head that Red Commie KGB Chief Vlad "The Mad Russian" Putin and his Pedophiliac Repug Party Henchpeople are busy pulling out from under them the rugs of Social Security, Medicare, Government-insured Pensions, Bank Accounts, and Annuities as they "party" in Slow So-Slow Motion. One gets the sense that when the Kremlin sends in the Caterpillars to bulldoze them into ditches, these giddily giggling geezers will be too far gone to even notice. Even a cast with this many award wins and nominations can't salvage a script that will have viewers audibly sighing, rather than laughing.
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