Funny. What else would you expect from a movie starring Dave Foley?

"Today is the big day!" Dave had me cracking up right from the beginning. Already, you see that Nelson Hibbert can really be so WRONG!! The series of events implicating him are dark, but effectively funny. I guess his character is so clueless that it already adds the comedy ingredient throughout the film. Watch for Jennifer Tilly: her scenes with Foley are fun to watch. Good chemistry!

Some more standouts include the detective whose laidback, logic flawed, corrupt methods are surprisingly quite effective and humorous. The crazy driver guy has got to be the nut of the film...what a kook!! Oh, I must mention that the scene between Foley and Kevin McDonald is hilarious. Their timing is awesome and they feed off each other so well.

Overall, a dark comedy with a moral as well! Funny stuff.

In Cleveland, the histrionic and clumsy executive Nelson Hibbert (Dave Foley) expects to be promoted to president of the Nigel Industries since he is engaged of the owner's daughter. However, his future father-in-law Mr. Nagel (Kenneth Welsh) chooses the executive Ken Daly (Dan Redican) for the position, and Nelson threatens him in front of the board of directors. Later he decides to pay a visit to Mr. Nagel but finds him dead with a knife in his neck. Nelson removes the knife and is covered of blood, becoming hysterical and leaving the office assuming that he is the prime suspect. However, the surveillance cameras disclose the identity of the killer (Colm Feore),and while Nelson escapes to Metcaf believing that he is chased by the police, the killer is pursued by the police and tries to eliminate Nelson believing that he is a "super-cop" on his trail.

"The Wrong Guy" is an extremely hilarious movie. I have just seen this film with my daughter and we are still laughing of the dumb but funny story. The lead character is a sort of Canadian version of Mr. Bean and is so imbecile that it is impossible to stay serious with his presence in scene. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "O Suspeito Errado" ("The Wrong Suspect")

It's obvious from the get-go that this rip-off of "The Fugitive" has the intelligence level of Bullwinkle. At least with moose, we knew he was meant to be dumb and could always depend on squirrel to get him out of a jam. Dave Foley is the dumbest of all corporate V.P.'s, engaged to the boss's daughter, and so cocky, he truly believes he is in line for the much coveted president position which is about to be announced. The corporate Cleveland office he works in is populated by arrogant people who don't even know who he is, let alone that he's up (at least in his mind) for promotion. Even his secretary barely acknowledges him, and when she does, it is to let him know that his sobbing over having been overlooked for that position has been heard all over the office.

So when future pop-in-law is found with a knife in his neck, Foley is so smart, he automatically pulls the knife out then scrambles for a way to get it neatly back in. On the run, he is chased by the actual killer who believes him to be onto him. But a small-town farm girl (Jennifer Tilley, very cute here in spite of the horrid movie she's in) and her banker father (Joe Flaherty) believe in him, as the police and the actual killer close in for the capture.

This would rank 5 stars on the IMDb scale if you counted each of the actual laughs in the film. At one point, Foley says, "Have I said to much?", to which I responded, "Yes, ever since your first line in the movie." Only when the breathy Tilley is on does the film raise any excitement, although she barely escapes with her dignity when her narcoleptic character all of a sudden passes out covered in Spaghetti O's.

By the time this movie came out, cinemas had been over-run with spoofs of the big blockbusters, and this ranks as one of the smelliest in the group. There is a nod to an obscure Hitchcock World War II classic, "Saboteur", which does create one of the five laughs I counted. Colm Feore is appropriately creepy as the actual killer, but he is so cartoonish in his villainy, you just know his own inner stupidity will do him in, if the wretched screenplay doesn't.