Hey everybody, the Emperor's naked!!

Rating: Null/10 (28 November 2000)

This film is the first I have ever walked out of. Was very tempted to during "Liar Liar" (and I think Jim Carrey is great), would have during "Out of Africa" if my partner hadn't already fallen asleep, but well done "High Fidelity" you managed it.
I stood the constant whining for about an hour before marching out. I am heartily sick of this "Oh I really am a sensitive man but can't help being an obsessive slob" genre that pervades movies, TV and novels at the moment. Hornby started it with "Fever Pitch" continued it with this rubbish and has been slavishly followed by others (David Baddiel's "Time for Bed" being a classic example).
"High Fidelity" just dragged on and on. Perhaps the idea of the movie was that we were supposed to feel contempt for the central character, the book definitely tries for sympathy. It was impossible to see how the Cusack character "got up to bat" (to use an American analogy) with any of the girls/women that had quite rightly broken his heart, let alone go on more than one date with them.
The true test was that the three companions I left in the theatre to sit through the whole boring mess couldn't even raise a comment about it afterwards.
Says it all really. Rent something else.