Orfuller than awful

Rating: Null/10 (29 September 2003)

Oh brother, what a B...A...D...movie. It was a first for me because in close to 50 years of movie going,never did I see any film in which the leading actor's expressionless,emotionless puss convey the idea.."let's get this lousy movie over with so I can sit in a hot bath." That is exacty what Bill Murray conveys. He plays this over the hill once top flight actor in the '70s who now earns his bread making commercials for a whiskey company and he's sent to Tokyo to do exactly that. He's married for at least 25 years, is bored with it,his life,his kids and his wife. All he does is stare into the camera, no blinking,no smiling..just this vacuous idiotic bored stare. He meets Charlotte,a good looking newlywed of 2 years who seems bored with her husband who spends most of his time running around the world photographing gorgeous women. She's lonely in Tokyo..Murray is too...he's 40 years older than she but would love to love her and she would love him to love her and it's all so impossible because of the age difference. Meanwhile the audience suffers waiting for something to happen..and wait..and wait... The scenery is fine but that can be had from National Geographic. I think "The NY Times" rated this film almost greater than "Gone With the Wind" which forces me, in the future, never to read that newspaper again. If this is supposed to be the NEW Bill Murray, give me the OLD. What a horrid movie-absolutely the worst and that's the best I can say about it.