Banal rom-com

Rating: 5/10 (17 November 2013)

Within a not so inspired cast, Jack Nicholson delivers, as often happens, an excellent performance, incredibly refined, he perfectly transcribed Melvin's mood changes and portrayed him in a very endearing way.
But it's a vain effort because this high-level performance just serves a humdrum and corny script, where everything is conventional and where the worn out mechanics leave no room for imagination. And if that wasn't enough, you have to endure an overstretched plot for almost two hours when the movie obviously contains a lot of slumps.
Granted, As Good As It Gets is rather well written, the dialogues are often a hit and are well spiced up by a few touches of humour, but with such a predictable and banal story, the film ends up as part of the long list of average to mediocre rom-coms.