Three (or two) words: Daniel Day-Lewis

Rating: 8/10 (12 February 2003)

If this movie was Manos: The Hands of Fate and Daniel Day-Lewis delivered a performance like this it would still be worth watching. Daniel Day-Lewis delivers one of the best performances that I have seen to date bringing a sensitivity and humanity to a character that I am not sure if anyone else can match. As for the rest of the movie, it is fairly good but it is not the greatest movie ever. Cameron Diaz's accent comes and goes but she does try. Leonardo DiCaprio does fairly well but pales in comparison to his co-stars. I am giving this movie an eight out of ten strictly for Daniel Day-Lewis, it would probably otherwise warrant a six or seven.