Synopsis
CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. During a night out with the rest of the office employees, they go to watch Voltan, a magician who secretly hypnotizes both of them.
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Cast
- Dan AykroydChris Magruder
- Helen HuntBetty Ann Fitzgerald
- Woody AllenCW Briggs
- Charlize TheronLaura Kensington
- David Ogden StiersVoltan
- Brian MarkinsonAl
- John TormeySam
- John SchuckMize
- Elizabeth BerkleyJill
- Kaili VernoffRosie
Recommendations
- 80
Chicago Reader
One thing I especially like about it, apart from the flavorsome 40s decor in color, is that it's silly in much the same way that many small 40s comedies were. - 75
Miami Herald
Hardly the first of Woody Allen's love letters to the good old days, but it's a high-spirited, entertaining one, falling along the same lines as "Radio Days." - 63
USA Today
Since a goodly portion of Jade is given over to the barbed banter lobbed by Allen and a solid Helen Hunt (in Stanwyck mode as a peevish efficiency expert who challenges his façade of male superiority), Woody the wordsmith is in full evidence, too. - 60
Los Angeles Times
It would be dishonest to deny that Jade Scorpion has amusing moments, but it never gets better than that and often settles for less. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
This charming and funny film may be one of the last of a rare genre deservedly named after a person -- the Woody Allen movie. - 50
New York Daily News
Lightweight, inoffensive fare, as bland as a sleepwalker under a hypnotist's spell. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
It feels wrong; the entire machinery of the movie seems to be rotating around Woody Allen's vanity. He remains a canny (if, in this case, hollow) film craftsman, but by now we know him far too well to be asked to find him adorable. - 40
Austin Chronicle
Scorpion fails to connect on anything but the most basic comic level. Despite Allen's usual excellent direction, it all plays like a TV-movie version of something else, Allen-lite.
