Overrated

Rating: 4/10 (27 July 2000)

The main problem with this movie is that the premise is stereotypical and uninteresting. A guy going through a mid-life crisis decides to quit his job and buy a new car- is that really the best they could do? I've seen a few episodes of "Full House" about the same thing and they were equally as interesting. This wouldn't have been so bad, however, if the movie had continued being a comedy, since that's all it deserved to be. But instead, they had the arrogance to try to teach the audience a moral about how superficial and meaningless life is, as if we didn't know. The last half is painfully preachy and obvious, and the lines about "all the beauty in this world" are laughable. I do recommend seeing the first hour, though- Spacey is pretty funny. Then turn it off immediately.