Once Upon A Crime
(1992)
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A spurned woman and an unemployed actor travel to Monte Carlo to deliver a lost dachshund to its owner and collect a $5,000 reward. But the dog's owner has been murdered and through a bizarre series of complications, the pair becomes implicated in the crime. A madcap murder mystery ensues involving an assortment of zany suspects, including a compulsive gambler and the obligatory obnoxious American tourist. |
The comic genius of John Candy is there for all to see in this dismal crime caper. Only someone of his immense talent could raise a laugh out of material this bad. All around him flounder, particularly Richard Lewis and Sean Young as the couple who become embroiled in a trans-European murder mystery after finding a valuable dachshund. It would be too easy to blame debuting director Eugene Levy for the chaotic structure and the bellowing performances. Any film with seven scriptwriters is likely to be a mishmash, but the unfortunate coincidence of so much ineptitude renders this almost unwatchable.