Egads! Putrid.
Mimi Leder fails to translate to cinema with this hog. After this completely useless exercise in banality, she needs to be excommunicated to the Land of Lifetime Movies for Women. It plays like a bad Roger Moore Bond - without the campy fun (the, sometimes, only saving grace of his lesser efforts - see "Live & Let Die"). Played with a strained straight face to the hilt, long after you've stopped caring (I eventually tried to take a nap in the theater on its opening day!).
Two things: this is when I decided that Clooney apparently only has one role in him, and since this was released he's done nothing to prove me wrong. He's 'Ross' in every damn movie he's ever been in, even the stupid vampire flick. Also, I AM SICK OF MODERN SCREENPLAYS USING COMPUTERS IN THE PLOT LIKE A PAIR OF CRUTCHES. In films like this one, it is inherent that at some point (or at many), characters will sit at a keyboard and make that terrible key-clicking noise for five minutes while they come to some revelation. Brings the movie to a screeching halt like a pointless sex scene.
I can't (and won't) begin to list the cliches that have piled up in this thing. If I hadn't been in the Navy at the time of this film's release date, and completely sick of the endless shipboard re-runs of movies like "Dumb & Dumber" and "Turbulence," I would never have laid down the $4.50 for a 10 am screening in good ol' Sand Dog.
I could have put that dough to good use.
Peace.
Mimi Leder fails to translate to cinema with this hog. After this completely useless exercise in banality, she needs to be excommunicated to the Land of Lifetime Movies for Women. It plays like a bad Roger Moore Bond - without the campy fun (the, sometimes, only saving grace of his lesser efforts - see "Live & Let Die"). Played with a strained straight face to the hilt, long after you've stopped caring (I eventually tried to take a nap in the theater on its opening day!).
Two things: this is when I decided that Clooney apparently only has one role in him, and since this was released he's done nothing to prove me wrong. He's 'Ross' in every damn movie he's ever been in, even the stupid vampire flick. Also, I AM SICK OF MODERN SCREENPLAYS USING COMPUTERS IN THE PLOT LIKE A PAIR OF CRUTCHES. In films like this one, it is inherent that at some point (or at many), characters will sit at a keyboard and make that terrible key-clicking noise for five minutes while they come to some revelation. Brings the movie to a screeching halt like a pointless sex scene.
I can't (and won't) begin to list the cliches that have piled up in this thing. If I hadn't been in the Navy at the time of this film's release date, and completely sick of the endless shipboard re-runs of movies like "Dumb & Dumber" and "Turbulence," I would never have laid down the $4.50 for a 10 am screening in good ol' Sand Dog.
I could have put that dough to good use.
Peace.