best movie i've ever seen.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

In the Wrong Guy, Dave Foley finds a body and, following a tradition established in many Hitchcock movies, grabs the knife, gets covered in blood, and goes on the run. Only in this case, he doesn't realize that the police have identified the real killer and Foley is not wanted by anyone.Foley is wonderful as a dim-witted protagonist who bumbles from one seeming disaster to the next without ever realizing the real situation. While he seems to be a rather lucky idiot, the real killer is skilled but wildly unlucky, as his path keeps crossing with Foley's chaotic one.The script is clearly a Hitchcock take-off, but while the score and opening credits make this explicit, director David Steinberg shows little interest in turning the film into an out-and-out Hitchcock parody. Primarily a TV director, he is very good at effectively presenting jokes, but he's not a stylist, and he never does anything specifically Hitchcockian unless the joke requires it.That's okay, though, because the movie is very funny, with plenty of solid gags, like a noble banker being run out of business by an unscrupulous farmer and a fence in need of repair, and there are solid performances by Tilly as the addled love interest and David Anthony Higgins as a lazy cop.I came across this movie accidentally, and I feel it should be better known. I only know Foley from that sitcom about the radio that was pretty good and an episode of Kids in the Hall that didn't excite me, but he's a really talented guy who can quickly establish a character and make him both convincing and ridiculous. Even if you're not a fan of KITH or Hitchock, check this out.

Aaaah! Aaaah! Aaaah! The moment the opening credits(if that's what they're called) began, I knew I was in for a treat. A great dumb brilliant parody treat. The hospital scene is a favorite, of course because of Mr. Jones. The phone call to his fiancé where he describes his lonely desperate life. Crying in the office was funny. Some parts were overdone. For example, one ham would have done it. My husband was shown this when he was in a hyperbaric chamber and it cracked him up. We would have never known about it if the nurses hadn't played it for him. There are a lot of clever and funny things in this movie, but for me, bottom line is: Aaaah! Aaaah! Aaaah!

Makes me wonder what other gems the Kids in the Hall have gone on to create.David FOLEY, perhaps the funniest Kid in the Hall, does a great job in this, and the funny scenes don't stop getting funnier until the funniest joke in the movie. You'll know it when you see it.The entire premise is wonderful, and all of the acting works very well. Everything is put together nicely ,as it should in a comedy, and the whole event feels like a super-extended Kids in the Hall sketch.After that, it just kind of levels off into 'entertaining funny' rather than 'sweet-jesus-you-gotta-see-this funny'.A great way to spend an hour and 30-something minutes.

While my grade of "10" is perhaps written in the heat of a happy moment, given what a comedy is supposed to do (and how utterly most fail), I stand by my 10. Wrong Guy's as silly as it is smart, and Dave Foley gives one of those performances that make me understand how people can get all weak kneed at the idea of Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin, etc. You're just so happy to be watching every little thing he does. At the end of the movie I almost wished I'd been more depressed before it, because I had left over joy from watching. Colm Feore perfect counterpoint as not the wrong guy. I loved it! Oh, I guess I need 10 lines of text. there! Wrong Guy so great!