I just shouldn't keep getting tempted to see mainstream movies

Rating: 6/10 (2 April 2009)

It would not be fair of me to slag this film off, it's really not that bad, I just shouldn't keep getting tempted to see mainstream movies, when there is something about the very process of getting such films made that ruins them for me. If this had been made either by someone with a lot less money or someone uninterested in providing 'something for the ladies' it could have been great. As it is the first half is not only excellent but fast paced and involving. I think the meeting up with Penelope Cruz's character is the turning point and just when things should have been getting hard edged we start to go floppy and this rapidly becomes melodrama and tearjerker as we race to an ending that I would never have believed from the excellent way the film began. Depp is great and seems to play the gradually ageing dealer with ease and Cruz is simply amazing, I had to keep pinching myself to believe it really was her.