Miss Congeniality dangles the ever-congenial bait of Sandra Bullock as a mousy FBI agent who tries to catch a killer by posing as a contestant in the Miss United States beauty pageant. I'd rather be buried in a mound of Floridian chad than watch director Donald Petrie force Bullock to jump through another desperately unfunny comic hoop. Bullock's Gracie Hart doesn't get any hot looks from her fellow agent (Benjamin Bratt), until the pageant head (Candice Bergen) hires a beauty consultant…

As an FBI agent undercover at a national beauty pageant,Sandra Bullockturns on the charm but struggles with a predictable screenplay which neverquite captures the crown.

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When the Miss United States Pageant is threatened by the ''Citizen,'' one of the country's most infamous criminals, the FBI decides to infiltrate the pageant with an undercover agent as a contestant. Searching for the ideal candidate, special agent Eric Matthews (Benjamin Bratt) recruits fellow agent Gracie Hart (Bullock),…