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It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

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.

It should probably be said that if you don't "get" the Kids in the Hall's brand of comedy, you'll snooze at 'The Wrong Guy'. However, if you like the KITH this will delight you. It plays like a 90-minute sketch, and I mean it in a good way. The main character conflates Dave's utilitarian and classic dumb guy character, Bruno Puntz-Jones, bad doctor, and moshed up in a sort of AT&Love setting with a little bit of the door to door axe murderer. Throw in Jennifer Tilly in a see-through nightie and you've got some good fun. For a low budget film, they did a really good job of continuity and keeping the pacing brisk.For a good inside joke, note the brand name of the tainted ham.

I've been a fan of Dave Foley for a while since his days on KIDS IN THE HALL, the underrated and oft-forgotten Canadian SCTV/SNL-esque sketch show.Here his talents are wasted in a plot that tries to introduce SO many cliches that it isn't even funny. It starts out as a case of mistaken identity (geek framed for murder), escalates into an unfunny Fugitive parody with similarly geeky and overweight cops chasing him around, then finds its way into a corner and tries to escape by introducing a mandatory romantic interest subplot with Jennifer Tilly and her "father" (Joe Flaherty) being the subject of Foley's compassion.Ah, forget about it. Flaherty is pretty funny in his small role and it's always great to see character-comedians like Foley and Flaherty being given screen-time -- but unfortunately the whole just careens out of control and doesn't know where to go...

Yes this film looks like it will be yet another terrible "dumb and dumber" type film but it really is rather well scripted and ...well down right funny. I am a huge Kids In The Hall fan but we got to see a few episodes of their series over here in the UK and that was it, i bought Brain Candy whilst in New York and and managed to tape a few of the KITH shows when they aired briefly over here in the mid 90's. I have searched for The Wrong Guy but it isn't available over here (like anything KITH related) but the BBC happned to show The Wrong Guy a couple of days ago and i laughed from the start to the end. It is s very simple idea for a film but it is made up of great little comedy moments that keep you laughing, even as a KITH fan i didn't expect it to be as funny as it was. Dave Foley really showed how great he can be as a writer and actor and how a simple idea can turn into something rather special, and that is what this film is SPECIAL. Watch this film if you get the chance and ..... start showing the KITH in the UK again or at least make the series available over here. 7 out of 10 Rotten Addict