The Wrong Guy

My name? Jones. Enema Bag Jones.

I think, ultimately, your enjoyment of this film relies on whether or not you find Dave Foley's style of comedy funny. I do and, as such, I found this movie to be quite entertaining. The supporting cast, Jennifer Tilly and Colm Feore, are both great characters. Plus it does have a very Hitcockian feel to it, which was very impressive because it doesn't come off as being cheesy.

Jennifer Tilly the icon that you are. I wanted the protagonist to die.

Foley is good but goddamn Colm Feore should have done more comedies, he is fantastic playing the straight man.

A very fun movie with a killer performance by Foley. Can't believe this didn't get a theatrical release.

Oh man, I'm so glad I saw this. So many laughs to be had. It's really well written with loads of amazing gags, plus the cinematography is great and the performances are wonderful across the board. It succeeds in just about every way that a comedy can. It's a shame that it has been mostly forgotten.

I like Dave Foley but was expecting a dull comedy using the tired "wrong man" device (Even when Hitch does it it doesn't interest me) so I was pleasantly surprised to find that it's actually a rather clever spoof with a ton of great moments scattered about. Still uses overexposed comedic devices and plenty of gags fall flat but other than that, this is a very recommendable flick to any Kids in the Hall fan.

With the spoof genre in a spiraling state of disarray (Friedberg and Seltzer, I'm lookin' at you), these days you've got to take what you can get, and this Hitchcockian comedy packs a fair amount of real hearty laughs. Colm Feore is very funny as an assassin on the run, and Foley is veritably hilarious as the man who thinks he's wrongfully wanted for the crimes. The movie isn't particularly memorable, but it's more than funny enough to earn a recommendation.

Very 90’s, very charming and it actually made me laugh, surprisingly taking into account I generally find characters like the protagonist really annoying

hilarious, and holds well together all the way through

Seen: 2. An absurd oddity. I couldn't help but enjoy it.

This is a relentlessly funny riff on Hitchcock's wrong man theme that is delightfully odd, charming and visually inventive. This is the movie that should have launched Dave Foley to superstardom. His performance is damn near perfect - the innocence and naivety that masks itself as cunning and suaveness. No one in the movie is ever sure if Nelson is one step behind or one step ahead, and it leads to countless laughs. A gem.

iirc, this film never had a theatrical release, and it kinda sorta makes sense (as much as it pains me to say that). Foley brings his KITH charm to this film, asking the question, "what if a stupid person was placed in a Hitchcockian thriller?" The film then continually subverts the thriller genre, as a quasi-parody. But, as good-looking and charming as Foley is, the film feels like an extended sketch (which, as you can tell by my score, is fine by me).

Very funny. Awyeah.

A wonderfully silly and naive comedy which spoofs Hitchcockian thrillers with it's own gag-a-minute style. Dave Foley is great as, well, Dave Foley. He's not very likable - arrogant, smug, idiotic - but he has a certain charm which makes watching his increasingly poor decisions very entertaining. A good supporting cast, excellent pacing, and the jokes are non-stop - similar to the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker classics everything is thrown at the wall at once - and something always sticks.

I'm conflicted. This is way, way too disjointed to be an actual good movie, and the acting is painfully TV quality. At the same time it contains some of the funniest lines you've heard this sife of "Airplane".

There were a couple times where I caught myself laughing involuntarily. I say involuntarily because I was rather embarrassed to enjoy this movie. Despite the usual predictability of it, it did have moments of hilarity and originality. David Foley did look out of place (not in an inteded way) but once again for about 25% of the movie he was funny. And generally I liked about 25% of the movie but the 25% was really quite funny I have to say.

Don't get me wrong, this movie was cheese...but not the smelly goat kind that leaves your mouth tasting like a dirty washcloth. Foley is bearable, Tilly is adorable, and the whole reverse take on the wrongly accused man was enough to hold my attention for the 100 minute running time. Worth the price of admission.

Hilarious. I watched this by myself and still laughed. The film stays solidly in spoof territory yet is still able to construct fairly consistent and well thought-out characters. I was laughing just as much at Foley's character as I was at the Hitchcock satire.

This movie wasn't laugh-out-loud funny most of the time, but it was still amusing. If I had to blame anyone, it would be the director... I felt like I got what they were doing, but half the time it worked well (like with basically every scene the real killer was in) and half the time it didn't (like with the greedy cop joke they ran into the ground). I adored the Saul Bass-like opening credits, though, and the film was worth watching just for the Kennedy joke and because I like Foley.

Foley's acting abilities are better suited to sketch comedy and not the big screen; he looks totally lost in a few scenes. A couple of jokes fall completely flat as well, but this is mostly pretty darn funny. Jennifer Tilly is beautiful and has great comedic timing.

Great music to help pull off the oddly Hitchcockian vibe, and no matter how dumb it got I kept laughing. Dave Foley is still just playing a Canadian Mr. Bean though, which is funny enough but I doubt I'll remember even a moment of this movie in a year. I'm starting to think Jennifer Tilly has some actual chops; hers was a finely nuanced performance in a movie that really needed at least one.