yet again the critics and the american academy get it wrong

Rating: 1/10 (26 June 2002)

a film so up its own end it hurts. after a promising start, this slides into cliche and over the top melodrama trying to be funny, all good actors, are put to no good use by a mediocre script and flat direction how the guy got an oscar for this is amazing, or maybe not the academy has not been know to vote for the best in any year, they always seem to vote politcally, so all the directors probably thought that no one esle would for mendes, but of course they did. its funereal pace and obvious gags make it hard going to sit through and the confused and "lets be clever" ending leaves you feeling that it really has been a waste of time