Did it really have to be this awful ?

Rating: 3/10 (1 October 2008)

I saw the play in London several years ago and even though it didn't strike me back then as a work of art, compared to this movie it sure felt like it. While I appreciate Streep's charisma in a part which really doesn't play to her incredible dramatic skills, everybody else in the cast gave me the feeling I was watching an improvised high school play done by people with very little talent. I was always a fan of Brosnan's James Bond but his musical talents are no more than pedestrian, specially while singing (that may be too strong a word) SOS and just standing there with not much to do but stare at Meryl, during her interpretation of THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL. I guess it didn't feel to surprising that with so many people dancing near the water, a bunch of them would "accidentaly" fall in it and it's not like I was expecting anything close to great but the only thing I could say to my wife at the end of this movie was "how come in movies where you don't want people to die they do while here, you wish everybody would died and nobody does".