Both The Accent & The Movie Stink

Rating: 2/10 (2 March 2007)

I actually was looking forward to this movie. After reading a number of reviews before the release, it sounded like a genuinely nice film, one that was beautifully filmed and one with an interesting cast (Nicholas Cage, Penelope Cruz and John Hurt.)
Well, it might have been all of those things BUT it is so boring that I defy almost anyone to sit through this in its entirety and keep attention. Also, Cage's attempt at speaking with an Italian accent is embarrassingly bad. He's such a good actor that I cringed every time he spoke in this film.
'Disappointing" seems to be the most-often word used by reviewers here to describe this film, and I totally agree.
I guess it didn't take long for word to get out about how bad this movie was because, like Cage's accent, it did not do well.