Lame and deathless

Rating: 6/10 (6 April 1999)

I can think of few other times that I was more bored in a movie theater than while watching this film. A script borrowed from a slightly-better-than-average sitcom is not the stuff of great movies. The performances- vastly over-rated. Jack Nicholson has never given more than one performance- he is exactly the same in every single film. Helen Hunt is little more than pouty, and what's with her come-and-go accent? Greg Kinnear- dull as dishwater. Cuba Gooding Jr. was thrown in for no other reason than to give the film some brief instants of energy, but even that energetic performer can't pull off such a feat. The whole film- a solid mediocrity.