you can only polish a...

Rating: 1/10 (13 January 2006)

I have only walked out of one movie in my life. Last night i almost made it two.
Almost everything i would have said has already been said in the other negative comments i've read this morning on IMDb. However, wooden script, unvelievable plot, underdevloped characters (how can a young man coming from a poor background in Ireland not have even the slightest trace of an Irish accent - without a good explanation!)
The cinematography was generally excellent and the acting wasgood on the whole, but, as they say, you can only a polish a t**d so much, it will always smell like a ...
If there was a Vote for "truly awful, one of the worst movies i have ever seen in my life...etc - minus 10", i would have cast it
I'm still smarting from wasting my £5 - still can't work out how others can praise this movie. Surely it can't be a case of the emporer's new clothes?