Not terrible, but not great

Rating: Null/10 (5 August 2001)

Not as bad as I thought it was going to be, given its poor reviews in the media. (Possible spoiler ahead) However, the ending ("you'll always have the guy in the coffeeshop") has been done before in Warren Beatty's "Heaven Can Wait" ("he might even be a Quarterback") which itself was a remake of "Here Comes Mister Jordan" from the '40's. And nothing annoys me more than when Hollywood composers rip off a classical composition and pass it off as their own - witness the music in the first few minutes which is extraordinarily similar to Arvo Paert's "Fratres" (ditto the music in "Patriot Games" which is "taken" from Shostakovich).