Great story, bad movie...

Rating: 7/10 (26 December 2001)

I was really looking forward to this movie because it seemed interesting. But there was a problem with this movie in that it did not transport me. Really good movies I find transport me into another world, but for some odd reason this movie simply did not.
Hard to put the finger on it, but it seemed to be a whole slew of little things like the bad humoured Maxine, or the over-reactive wife. It all seemed to be a bit too surreal and too far fetched. It almost seemed to me that everybody was trying too hard at their character.
I do not think the storyline was bad. I was rather impressed with the story line. With different actors or a different director probably would have been a real blockbuster. All in all the movie simply did not turn out.