Boring and pointless disappointment

Rating: 3/10 (29 February 2004)

The only thing about this turkey with which I was happy was that I watched it on someone else's DVD and it did not cost me any money to be bored to death. Older washed-up movie star Bill Murray goes to Tokyo to star in an ad campaign for a liquor company. Not only is he lonely and bored (yawn), but he is disappointed in his current life. His wife and family back in the States seem to have other things on their minds than him. Scarlett Johansson is a young woman in Tokyo also lonely and bored (yawn) and disappointed in her current life. Not only is she shacked up with a guy more interested in his career than her, but he has left her alone while he goes on a job assignment without leaving her so much as a sex toy with which to amuse herself. She and Murray meet. They play grab-ass for several days. What is this strange relationship: father/daughter or a "two ships who passed in the night" romance? Who cares? Finally he goes home and leaves her to pine away. I gave this movie a 3 only because of my respect for Murray's abilities demonstrated in other movies.