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Rating: 1/10 (12 April 2006)

After the hype and awards, I expected to see art, passion, professionalism. Instead I saw a poor quality product with poor direction, poor diction, unconvincing (or absent) passion, hurt, and a broken story line. In a few years, maybe the glowing critics will relook at the movie and reflect that their hype and hope for glory was not repaid with either art or a quality performance. For now, some of us will be the only ones to realize that it was a boring, poorly crafted, inarticulately presented movie that leaves the impartial viewer empty and disappointed. I'm glad I saw it, to make up my own mind--but I should have saved the time and money.