Directed by Paul Abascal

Starring Cole Hauser, Robin Tunney, Tom Sizemore, Dennis Farina, Larry Cedar, Robert Catrini, Duane Davis, Kevin Gage, Lauren Birkell, Tom Hollander, Wendy Braun

Rated PG-13

Run Time: 85 minutes

Genre: Action/Drama

After a tremendous success from "Passion of the Christ" Mel Gibson is back in the news with "Paparazzi" a thriller produced by Gibson and directed by his hairdresser, Paul Abascal. The film tries to reflect the sleaziness and the lows that the modern day paparazzi will do to get a photo for an easy buck.

Bo Laramie (Cole Hauser) is Hollywood's new rising action star. He and his wife Abby (Robin Tunney) are enjoying the new ride of success, when a gang of paparazzi led by Rex Harper (Tom Sizemore) a National Enquirer veteran and other photographers turn their life into a living hell.

It is a group of people who would do anything to get new information and news on the famous. If they fail to get the stuff they would to extremes of making it up. There new victim is Bo who does not get bothered at first when he finds himself and his family surrounded by paparazzi like hawks all the time, but he losses his control when the swarm invades his son's soccer game. He punches out one of the member of the paparazzi team and other gets a picture of it. Now this things flares up further with the paparazzi taunting the big film star and crossing every line of decency with every photo opportunity. Limit stops when Bo's wife gets hurt in an accident and their son end up in coma. Now the movie takes turn into revenge plot.

Mel Gibson, who produced this movie, does a funny guest appearance in the office of an anger management therapist. You would also see Chris Rock playing a pizza delivery driver. And Vince Vaughn, on the set of the latest Bo Laramie movie, plays his delightful self.

Paparazzi is a wonderful idea which was never shown on big screen on such extremes. It suggests that celebrity is the prey of the predatory media. But movie has some weak points to be a big hit on the big screen. The movie lacks the seriousness that might have made it interesting. It is not that Paparazzi is not an entertaining movie, it that it turns out to be funny which is because of the weaknesses in the production. There are many scenes in the film which are not meant to be funny but they make you laugh anyways loud.