run the gauntlet if you dare!

Rating: 1/10 (5 July 2003)

If you can make it through this Chinese water torture you can get POW status! This is the slowest movie I think I have ever seen. (My wife claims that only "True Stories" by the Talking Heads makes a better sleeping pill.) It is a good example of how a lot of talented people can get together and in a self-important moment design a mundane period piece that only artsy types would like. Except this trifle is not even artful. Part of the problem is the movie claims to be a "secret agent man"-type thriller...but where you expect a Beatles concert you get "That Thing You Do." Tripe.