Film Review – Fool’s Paradise

Charlie Day has been a professional actor for over 20 years, and with “Fool’s Paradise,” he makes the leap to direction, making his debut behind the camera. Day also handles screenwriting and acting duties, giving him a level of control over the endeavor, which asks audiences to embrace the replication of a Charlie Chaplin feature, with the production hoping to recreate the tone and tempo of a silent comedy while keeping the final cut distinctly 2023 in humor. There’s sizable labor put into the feature, and Day has called in a lot of favors to help fill out the cast, trying to keep the offering exciting as famous faces pop in for supporting roles and cameos. However, there’s a lot that’s fundamentally wrong with “Fool’s Paradise,” which wins points for ambition and homage, but is extremely difficult to sit through, despite Day’s best efforts to keep the whole thing racing along with absurdity and satiric targets. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com