Mineral water executive Howard Pigeon has married the wrong woman. Elizabeth, his beautiful wife, is irritating, opinionated, and everything he hates a woman to be. Howard wants to get rid of her in the worst possible way. His plan takes him back to the hotel where he and Elizabeth spent their honeymoon in Spain.

Walter begins planning how he will kill Elizabeth and dispose of her body to make it the perfect crime, the only thing is, little does he know that Elizabeth has her plans of her own. The night Walter has chosen to commit his crime, Elizabeth disappears. Immediately, he becomes the prime suspect, something he wanted to avoid, at all cost.

Director Baz Taylor, who has worked extensively on television, tried his hand at this black comedy, that unfortunately doesn't go anywhere. The viewers are asked to accept Jeff Goldblum's larger than life performance as the husband that has had it. Mr. Goldblum is all over the place trying to give life to Walter. Mimi Rogers, an actress that should be seen more, underplays Elizabeth. Both actors appear to be acting in different films, probably because of the direction Mr. Taylor conceived for the picture. Both Mr. Goldblum and Ms. Rogers are totally wasted.

The largely Spanish supporting cast don't have much to do.

This movie is rather unknown (only 85 vote on IMDb at the moment) and it should stay unknown.

The movie is very simple. It's very predictable and for a comedy it has very few laughs. Also the style itself is simple and about as average as it can be. The story is not really good and doesn't always flow or makes sense and is filled with some rather big plot-holes.

Jeff Goldblum on the other hand is good and comically talented and so is Burt Kwouk's (Cato from the "Pink Panther" series) in his small but fun role. But quite frankly all of it is not good enough to save this movie.

It is no disaster but it's not recommendable either.

4/10

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Shooting Elizabeth is a black comedy that unfortunately isn't very funny and not that dark. Goldblum plays the same hypochondriacal character he does in every movie, Mimi Rogers is passable, and the detective is a lame attempt at an Inspector Clouseau. Apart from that, its fine!