We second Scanner Bryan that the music in ScoJo's cover of the Tom Waitts song "Falling Down" is pretty banging. But it seems that our agreement stops there..
Scanner Nicole's sweeping review is, of course, a click away.
Scarlett Johansson is an average looking woman with an average amount of talent who somehow manages to be photographed and filmed in flattering circumstances by talented people who are very taken with her. And we, for the most part, are not buying what she happens to be selling.
We see something of the same thing in this song. It's better than, for example, a Lindsay Lohan track, but not nearly as entertaining because the song really wants to be taken SERIOUSLY as ART. She's singing a Tom Waits song with David Bowie backing vocals and production by TV On the Radio's Dave Sitek, if I'm gonna say it's good, it better be actually good, not just pretty good for Scarlett Johansson. Plus we're currently cringing over the
handheld camera, libreal use of dissolves, and close ups of a
reluctant starlet having her tattoo covered with makeup before she goes
on set.
Pretty good, for a video of a singer who is not terrible.
