Talented actors merely go through their paces in this lackluster remake of the 1973 flick starring screen legends Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman. The director seems to just point the camera and shoot the scenes with no sense of imagination or originality. This could just as well be a video recording for all the dull exchanges. Cliches abound. Everything seems artificial and posed. Did anyone do any in-depth research? If you're going to do a remake of a classic then look for an original angle and provide a sense of movement rather than just pointing the camera and telling the actors to get on with it. The scenery is as pretty as a douche commercial. Unrelentingly "nice". The story lacks any tension. Seen it all before. Perhaps a better writer and a better director? The actors were there but the movie-makers failed to support them. This movie made four and a half million worldwide. What does that tell you?
