pizza delivery driver, Vince Vaughn appears as Bo Laramie's co-star, and Matthew McConaughey appears as himself at a movie premiere. At about forty minutes into the movie, Detective Burton (Dennis Farina) tells Bo how one of the paparazzi, Wendell Stokes, has previously sued "Alec Baldwin" or one of the "Baldwins". Daniel Baldwin plays paparazzi Stokes in the movie (see Baldwin brothers). Reception Box office The film was a box office bomb, having cost about US$20 million to be made, and grossing only $16 million worldwide. United States Domestic Gross: US$ 15,714,234 International Gross: US$891,529 Total Worldwide Gross: US$16,605,763 Critical response The film holds an 18% rating on Rotten Tomatoes with a consensus of being "a crude, ludicrous exploitation movie with a questionable moral". The film also received a large number of negative criticism from major American, Canadian and British publications: "Amazingly arrogant, immoral film." -- Dave Kehr, The New York Times "The audacity of the paparazzi is a good topic, but this imbecilic film has no idea how to focus its intentions." -- E! Online "More than a few movie stars probably have fantasized about getting their revenge on the paparazzi. But leave it to Mel Gibson to see possibilities in a script about a rising star driven to go on a murderous rampage with [the paparazzi] as his victims."—Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle "First-time director Paul Abascal is an ex-hairdresser whose debut film wallows in melodramatic excesses - tense, shrieking music, spitting, sputtering villains and a hero who is right and righteous because, well, he's a celebrity! And even celebrities have vengeance fantasies!"—Roger Moore, Chicago Tribune "Especially since the death of Princess Diana, guerilla photographers who snap celebrity candids have come to be considered the gum on the bottom of society's shoe. The film Paparazzi exploits this built-in audience disgust to characterize them as somewhere between slugs and dung beetles on the morality scale, deserving whatever they get."—Derek Armstrong, Allmovie "The martyr is action star Bo Laramie (Cole Hauser, playing the role as if he were slipped Rohypnol in a drink and forced to be in this movie!)."—Jim Slotek, Jam! "[Bo] takes the paparazzi out with extreme prejudice, for which he is investigated by a Columbo-esque cop who not-so-secretly approves of this old school justice. It's just so embarrassing you wish the cinema would fit swivel seats so you can look round at the back wall when he comes