What a disaster!

Rating: Null/10 (25 April 2002)

With John Madden and John Hurt you might have thought there was a small chance of a reasonable film out of a wonderful book. However this goes out of the window with Cage's standard 'I'm in a deep emotional part" act which consists of looking like a deer caught in headlights...all the time. Tissue paper looks thick when a comparison of emotional depth is made. As for Penelope Cruz, wonderful in her own country's films, maybe she caught something from Cage.