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An average movie

This year, Whitney Houston died which was, I'm afraid, not really surprising. Before her career went down the drain, like many other music stars, she tried an acting career but it never really took off. However, she did have one major success with her acting debut. Of course, portraying a pop-star was not really tough acting for her. The masterstroke with this feature was to cast Kevin Costner who was back then at the height of his career. Together, you had one of most popular singers coupled with one of the most popular actors. One one hand, it is a really stupid story, completely predictable, taylor made for Houston to sale even more CDs. On the other hand, Costner and Houston have some good chemistry and the movie was rather well made. Basically, like I said before, the whole thing was just a shameless marketing stunt to combine the highest selling music star at the time and one of the most popular actors (also at the time). And it worked. The movie was a huge success, the soundtrack was a huge success and you have to give some credit to Houston as many pop-stars (Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera,...) all tried something similar but failed miserably. To conclude, it is pretty average stuff and it is not really worth a look, expect maybe if you are a die-hard fan of Whitney Houston.

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Added by johanlefourbe
11 years ago on 20 May 2012 09:35