Slightly better than average movie, but nothing special

Rating: 6/10 (9 June 2005)

This movie has nothing special about it, it is a story we've all seen a hundred times before. You don't care about the characters, the acting is mediocre, Russell Crowe's accent is lousy, there isn't much of a story.. It's all so.. blah. I really hope this movie doesn't win many if any awards, there are plenty of contenders who deserve recognition more than this uninteresting movie. Renée Zellweger was decent in it but again it wasn't a performance worthy of any gratuitous attention. There are many bad shots in the movie, and they need to work on their lighting and sound skills. For such a Hollywoodized production you'd think they wouldn't mix shots of light and darkness for one scene (one in particular, when they were outside of the church) and the sound wouldn't crackle so much but maybe that is a theater problem. This movie doesn't deserve half of the hoopla it receives.. Final verdict: move along, nothing to see here.