Dire Actually

Rating: Null/10 (15 January 2004)

A truly dire film, from painful beginning to painful end. After the first few minutes I realised that this was going to be a woeful waste of talent and time. The empty device of using the "F---" word - shouted if possible - was a dead giveaway that this was going nowhere. It gets an embarrassed titter from the type of audience this movie aims for, but it doesn't substitute for a decent script. Hugh Grant's rip-off of - sorry, homage to - Tom Cruise's hilarious routine in "Risky Business" was just one example of this film's lack of any originality. I have never felt more like walking out and asking for my money back.