Unintentional comedy

Rating: 3/10 (17 January 2005)

This was one of those epic dramas that goes so far over the top, it ends up folding in on itself.
We were supposed to be engrossed with his trials and tribulations, feeling empathy for his plight, but all we could do was laugh. Every thing which went awry just made it all the more amusing. And at the climax, when he's on the raft, and Wilson goes floating away and he cries out with all his heart, "WIIIIIIILLLL-SOOOOOONN!" we nearly got kicked out of the theater. (A first, I assure you.)
It utterly failed to generate any sympathy for this poor guy whatsoever. The ratings here at IMDb are above average, and the box office take was generous, but I, for one, was entertained and amused, however not in the way they intended.
I've seen this afterwards, and while it was not AS funny, it was still funny. It surely was not dramatic or epic, or much of anything else. It's just a mediocre little movie that took itself WAY too seroiusly.
It rates a 3.2/10 for unintentional comedic effect, from...
the Fiend :.