Jucy images of celebrities living their private lives are everywhere in tabloids and magazines. Who makes this possible?

Only the paparazzi, eager and willing to get their exclusive photographs at any cost.

But how far is too far?

Mel Gibson gives the audience “Paparazzi,” a more fast-pace, action-packed movie than his last movie “Passion of the Christ.”

Bo Laramie [Cole Hauser] has moved his family to Los Angeles and is an action movie star who has just become the “it” man of Hollywood.

One afternoon Laramie and his wife [Robin Tunny] take their son [Blake Bryan] to soccer practice.

While watching their son play, Laramie finds a tabloid photographer Rex Harper [Tom Sizemore, who plays the part of an unprincipled, immoral photographer to the hilt] taking pictures of his son.

Laramie goes over to the photographer and asks politely if he would stop taking pictures of his son.

The photographer argues saying that Laramie should get accustomed to people taking pictures of him now that he’s a public figure.

Eventually the photographer backs off until Laramie goes back to watch the game and then starts taking pictures again.

Laramie, angered at this, punches the photographer and the photographer then vows to make Laramie’s life a living nightmare.

Rex then gathers his photographer cronies and starts to harass Laramie’s family to the point that they are responsible for getting Laramie into a car accident, injuring Laramie’s wife and son.

Laramie then vows revenge on the photographers and starts killing them one by one with witty and clever maneuvers and sets up a final culmination with lead paparazzo Rex.

In one scene, he and his friends take pictures of Laramie and his family even after being injured in the car accident that they caused.

One of the most exiting scenes is the car scene, where the photographer and his friends drive up to the sides of Laramie’s car to entrap him and take pictures of him.

Laramie blinded by the camera flashes, steps on the brakes in the middle of an intersection, what happens next is climactic.

The only thing that might mar the movie is the over exaggeration of the paparazzi’s ill willed nature.

In reality, the paparazzi do not make it their purpose to set out and maliciously hurt the rich and famous as they do in the movie.

However, Gibson wants to show the viewers his perspective on what it’s like always being followed by the paparazzi.

The storyline could have been a little more original as well, as it contains too many similarities with the circumstances surrounding Princess Diana’s death.

For example, Laramie’s fame causes him to be chased on a street inside his car by the paparazzi and suffers a car accident greatly caused by the paparazzi.

The only difference is that in the film Laramie lives and in true life, Princess Diana did not.

Despite the exaggerations and the not so original plot of the movie, it does show a different perspective of what it is like to suddenly be in the public’s eye.

Being famous is not always so glamorous and stress free.

The rich and famous often have to endure the scrutiny of being in the public’s eye.

Gibson does a good job of showing this point in the beginning and ending scenes where Laramie is uncomfortable with all the camera flashes going off at his movie premiere.

His constant struggle with handling the media and paparazzi invading him and his family’s privacy doesn’t ease things.

In the end however, Laramie handles the cameras and shows he can work paparazzi with patience.

On Screen

What: “Paparazzi”: a high-profile movie star seeks revenge on a tabloid photographer who caused an accident that injured his wife and son.

Rated: PG-13

Starring: Cole Hauser, Robin Tunney, Dennis Farina, Tom Sizemore

Bottom Line: Might appeal more to those who made it rather than those watching in the audience.