This movie does not deliver...to the point of being silly.

Rating: 3/10 (11 January 2015)

What a great premise...what potential! Unfortunately, what you have is a stiff, trite, dull movie. The performers are fine, although Pitt is miscast in the role. The movie sombers itself to death. The script is weak, the direction...ordinary. The dreariness of the Joe character buries the film. The movie has no charm, humor and cleverness. Pitt wanders through the role like an automaton. It reminded me a bit of Peter Sellars in Being There but without the script, charisma or humor to make it work. This movie has been done before in other incarnations and this type of story works best when it doesn't take itself so, so seriously. I would love to see a remake with the same story but a much better script.