Where is the American Viewpoint?

Rating: 3/10 (16 April 2010)

Lets see, Anthony Minghella the director and screen writer, is English.
Jude Law is English.
Nicole Kidman is Australian.
Like many English movies many of the lines are whispered or slurred or otherwise difficult to hear and subsequently to understand.
Without having read the book, the movie is almost unintelligible.
I didn't know beforehand that Minghella was also responsible for the English Patient, another incomprehensible mess.
It explains a lot.
The movie misses an American viewpoint very much.
Next time Hollywood films an American Historical Novel, please use use Americans.
The book is hard to start and contains a lot of uninteresting side observations. But I would prefer to reread the book than re-watch the movie!