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title = "The Escort (2015)"
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date = 2021-02-03
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updated = 2021-02-12
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["movies", "reviews", "comedy", "movies:2021", "stars:2"]
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[Wikipedia Summary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Escort_(2015_film)):
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Journalist Mitch is a sex addict. When he is fired, he applies for a job with a
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magazine. The editor promises to hire him if he writes a more interesting
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article than his competitors. He decides to write about Natalie, a
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Stanford-educated escort he met by chance.
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{{ stars(stars=2) }}
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Honestly, I'm not even sure this should be a 2-star movie. I mean, look at the
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plot: It's some guy and a escort and they start going together. Do you have a
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feeling this would end up like [Pretty
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Woman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Woman)? Heck, this is even mentioned
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in the movie, by Natalie/Victoria, asking if Mitch thinks this would end up like
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the (other) movie.
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Well, it does, and the quip in the movie doesn't do anything to soften the
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slouch of clichés in the movie: Surely the guy who doesn't get attached to
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anyone will get attached to the girl; surely the girl will rethink her
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profession and only then will consider going into a relationship; surely
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something will change in the girls life to make her get out of her job; surely
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the attraction between them would make the guy rethink his addiction; surely
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after that his relationship to those around him will get a 180 degree turn to
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the best.
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But the thing is... I have a crush on Lyndsy Fonseca. Not just she's pretty, her
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acting doesn't look like acting. OK, it's not Donald Sutherland level of acting
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but heck, the way she speaks feels like some real person, in whatever situation
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she's in, speaking. It's not from this movie, but even in Kick-Ass it was pretty
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damn good. There is a scene when Mitch tells, among other things, that Natalie
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is pretty and she quips back "Oh, you think I'm pretty?" in a juvenile/childish
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way that feels incredible natural. And that's why it is not just a single star.
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Michael Doneger, Fonseca's pair, on the other hand, it is pretty hard
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case. Personally -- and I'm saying this as a movie-watcher, not a movie-critic,
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something that I'm not -- I can't see his acting being that good, but also the
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lines feed to him -- which, apparently, were also written by him -- seem forced
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and not that much natural. Sure the chemistry with Fonseca work, but the
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character itself is not that good.
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In the end, I guess the movie could distance itself from "Pretty Woman" by
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simply not going that road: Make Mitch still be a sex addict; make Natalie still
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be an escort; let their friendship/relationship not get into what the characters
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are. I mean, there is something in a scene where the two are discussing clinics
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for STDs and their posters. Let it continue from there. They could even keep the
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relationship while keeping their problems/jobs. Make
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something... different. Challenge the status quo that a relationship can't work
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if one side is a sex addict and the other a hooker.
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It's not a boring movie, it's just... bland.
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