It should have been lost!

Rating: Null/10 (7 March 2004)

A film that never gets going. I felt that I wanted to get up and push the main characters to go faster. Neither of the leads gave their characters any substance. The story line is un-interesting and the acting so animated that paint dried quicker. I have never seen a film where nearly ten minutes was wasted listening to an inane, mobile phone call made from the bath - what was the point? It was obvious before that, that he and his wife were on different planets. A pity the film wasn't. In one one word this film was insipid. The following week I went to see Jack Nicholson's "Something's Gotta Give". Lost in Translation should take note. Jack was 1000 times funnier, the film had more substance and the characters were totally believable. Lost in Translation is an ideal film for those pseudo-intellectual yuppies who couldn't tell a good film if they were told it was. If you are a normal thinking person, avoid this film like the plague.