Half a movie.

Rating: 6/10 (30 January 2004)

I went to see this movie without knowing what to expect. It started pretty well, besides Bill Murray is one of my favorite actors and it looked very promising. There were some parts where the audience seemed to really enjoy the "Japanese people" jokes (e.g. the Japanese director scene) and the characters were being outlined, the plot building up... But that was all, after the first half the movie started to lose pace, to reach an anticlimactic ending. It seems like a lost opportunity for a really enjoyable movie. I must also say that this is one of the movies for which I really cannot understand the IMDb rating. I would give it a 6 out of ten.