Missed the mark...badly

Rating: 3/10 (5 March 2006)

This was one of the most disjointed movies I can ever remember watching. The acting was fine, even outstanding in some cases, particularly Liam Neeson and Emma Thompson. But the stories had no real meaning. There did not really seem to be a point to any of them other than the one with Neeson and his step-son. Each of the other tales by themselves could have made for an interesting movie, but jammed together as they were, they lost whatever punch they might have provided in different circumstances. It was like watching a visual rough draft of a novel-you could see scenes with potential while others made no sense. The naked couple scenes seemed to be thrown in just so they could have some nudity and had no connection to anything else. If they had concentrated on one or two stories this would have been a much stronger movie.