What A Crock Of Soap Opera Doodoo

Rating: 3/10 (15 October 2006)

Melodrama never smelled so bad. The various endings to the subplots are so badly written that they are laugh out loud hilarious. The acting is nonexistent, but then the characters are too linear to give any decent actor some meat to chew. I guess that is why they cast Sandra Bullock and Brendan Fraser, as one-dimensional as they come. However, why Don Cheadle and Matt Dillon signed on to this film is beyond me.
This is hack screen writing, straight off prime time network television. Not too surprising when you consider Paul Haggis's resume includes "Who's the Boss?", "The Facts of Life", and "Diff'rent Strokes". Datytime soap operas have more convincing coincidences.
Like "Magnolia", another big-budget soap opera, the only good thing about this movie is "it sure is pretty to look at".
Last week I watched "A Streetcar Named Desire" for the first time, a movie made ten years before I was born and so not a movie of my generation. Hollywood does not make 'em like that anymore.