Interesting?

Rating: 6/10 (21 January 2007)

Bill Murray is Bob, a movie star who is in Tokyo to shoot a whiskey commercial. Scarlett Johansson is Charlotte, she is a young wife who is tagging along with her workaholic husband. When they both become lost in a city where they feel alienated by the culture and the language, they both suffer with insomnia and are left dealing with their loneliness. When they cross paths in a luxury hotel bar they strike up an intimate friendship, and begin to explore the great city together.
Murray and Johansson both deliver stunning and insightful performances, and their is some subtle humour along their journey through Tokyo. Sadly, however good each element in this film is, the result is somewhat boring at times, OK the film is about human connection and loneliness, and the character depth is great (even without much development) but this alone does not make a interesting movie. I couldn't help feeling the movie had little real point, it has all the ingredients of a masterpiece, except one - the story.
6/10 for trying