Someone shoot the bloody zither player

Rating: 4/10 (21 November 2002)

Another dull film, built around a second rate artist.
I wonder whether Kenneth Branagh built his Harry Potter, 'Gilderoy Lockheart' performance around Orson Welles in this movie. Arrogant, incompetent, hammy, self-fancying ... yes that's Welles. Lighting which would be embarassing in an 11-year olds' school play, dialogue which George Lucas would have found cheesy and a badly mixed musical soundtrack.
If you care what happens after 30 minutes, you must be involved in the illegal drugs business, because no one else does.
A dreary film from a pompous "actor".