Hugely disappointing despite media and industry praise

Rating: Null/10 (5 January 2004)

It seemed one cliche after another riddled this mediocre film. Miss Ada (Nicole Kidman) was too glossy (her dress and make-up a joke!) for her life circumstances especially towards the end of the film and while Inman (Jude Law) was convincingly portrayed, Renee Zellweger played a caricature of a "country bumpkin" that made the entire theater laugh uncomfortably. I cringed through every long painful minute of this 2 and a half hour story. Such a different experience from that of The Return of the King when the minutes flew---