Great acting and dialog, but...

Rating: Null/10 (21 September 1999)

I was very impressed with the first hour of this movie. Nicholson was for once brilliant, normally he just plays Jack Nicholson and everyone says he's great, but this time the credit was justified. Helen Hunt was fine and the dialog was excellent and amusing. The style of filming is similar to the excellent Jerry Maguire, in the fact that it isn't the predictable stereotype Hollywood crap.
The 'but' is that's 'as good as it gets' the story kind of drags a bit, you know they'll get to together in the end and Nicholson will lose all his idiosyncrasies
If the film had ended after the first hour I would have said it was a classic movie, but it lost a few points for the last part of the movie. In essence the story let down great performances and dialog. Still worth watching.