I think the reviews for this film are a little overrated. I'm risking a high number of "This comment wasn't useful" marks, but whatever I'll say my peace and leave it at that.
It's billed as comedy, but I found that the elements of humour lacked the punch necessary to make me laugh. Instead I found myself trying to laugh and then asking why. Some parts were funny enough, but not enough to describe this movie as a comedy.
The characters played by Brosnan and Kinnear are fairly well played out and developed, and the bond between them is strange to say the least. The two are well supported by Hope Davis is Kinnear's wife. Some nice artistic touches from Shepard, such as intercutting scenes of a bullfight matador with Brosnan's character getting up to something.
The soundtrack is a little cliché at times and there are one or two little twists towards the end, although if you had been paying attention throughout and have watched enough twisty movies they're not too hard to figure out before they happen. One of them is a little double- twisty so maybe Shepard knew that it wasn't hard to figure out.
All in all competent, wrongly advertised and not massively memorable.
It's billed as comedy, but I found that the elements of humour lacked the punch necessary to make me laugh. Instead I found myself trying to laugh and then asking why. Some parts were funny enough, but not enough to describe this movie as a comedy.
The characters played by Brosnan and Kinnear are fairly well played out and developed, and the bond between them is strange to say the least. The two are well supported by Hope Davis is Kinnear's wife. Some nice artistic touches from Shepard, such as intercutting scenes of a bullfight matador with Brosnan's character getting up to something.
The soundtrack is a little cliché at times and there are one or two little twists towards the end, although if you had been paying attention throughout and have watched enough twisty movies they're not too hard to figure out before they happen. One of them is a little double- twisty so maybe Shepard knew that it wasn't hard to figure out.
All in all competent, wrongly advertised and not massively memorable.