one night at mccools or ( 2001 ) ( out of four ) by blake french represent accord to harald zwart and the director of one night at mccool and this film be a dark comedy about the power of woman over men and and how a group of people can all perceive different reality . it the same story tell from three different point of view and and each time we tell the story and we try to reveal a little bit more about what actually happen and which nobody really know . one night at mccool mark the feature film directorial debut of zwart and an award win commercial and music video director who begin make short film when he be eight year old . i always get nervous when a director of commercial and music video turn to filmmaking . we have see so many example of how these guy think they be make another advertisement or music video for tv with their production . zwart resist that tendency . he capture a specific humorous truth in one night at mccool and from an inventive and complex screenplay by the late stan seidel and even if it be often somewhat perplex . one night at mccool feature three men who share their separate experience about a particularly beautiful young woman . in some way and this movie be the comedy version of american beauty and but in others and it be a world apart . it all start one night at mccool explain each of the three men to their various listener . there be randy ( matt dillon ) and a tender at the local bar and and his cousin and a lawyer name carl ( paul reiser ) and who stay until the place close . detective dehling ( john goodman ) and arrive when the saloon become the crime scene of the dead boyfriend of a female fatal appropriately name jewel ( liv tyler ) . randy be the first to see her and a an individual treat her unkindly . he stand up for her and and before you can say sexy and they be have vigorous sex and she move in with him . at first and randy be reluctant represent the sex and the violence and all in one night it a little much . but who could turn a jewel like jewel away . jewel change the life of each of the three men . for detective dehling and she pull him out of a hole of grief since his wife die . for carl and she make him forget his love family and nice little suburban household . for randy and she light a few fire and both positive and negative and the late persuade him to contact a bingo playing hit man name burmeister ( michael douglas ) to put an end to her deceptive way . it be interest how the movie perceive the three different chronicle even the costuming of jewel be relative to the man tell the story . dehling see jewel a a beautiful and mesmerize gift from god . carl see jewel a two sexy leg and lot of cleavage . randy be unsure what to make of her and an awakening to his otherwise boring and road to nowhere life . the most intriguing element of this movie be jewel herself and however and deliciously play by the always delightful liv tyler ( armageddon ) . she be not really interested in the men and but what they can offer her . her motif be all too simple and not truthfully diabolical or evil while she be simply a young lady who have learn at an early age that she can get what she want out of life through her beauty . the film have a lot of fun with it material . from the enthusiastically entertaining cast and to it violently hilarious showdown and one night at mccool take advantage of most of it humorous idea . what make the movie even funnier be how the three men point of view differ . the actor have a lot of fun with their character and too . goodman be curiously whimsical while reiser fit his kinky and squirmy part quite well while douglas be sly and mysterious in one of the movie funny performance while dillon give his character arrogant personality and even though randy be a lackluster nobody while liv tyler be dazzle . she inject jewel with the perfect amount of boastful charisma and tantalize wit . she remind u of mena suvari intimate performance in american beauty . one night at mccool be the first film to come from michael douglas new production company and furthur film . it be a creative and genuine and and sexy production . along the way we often become catch up in the twisty structure and but that be a natural response to a movie that intentionally interweave several angle to a single story . the movie end on a note that be both black and comedic . this be another one of those comedy in which serious event take place in a humorous way while i. e. and the black comedy . many film of this genre come across a either too black or too lackadaisical . one night at mccool be one of the few that actually work . .