stooges emote

Rating: 4/10 (17 July 2004)

curiously slow-moving effort - scratch that, there's no effort about it, if we discount forlani's wrinkling her nose (which to do her credit, she does very well: it can keep one quite occupied during the enormous gaps in the 'action'). hopkins is miscast (when is he not?), doesnt much trouble to empathise with the character the screewriters have in mind; brad pitt is in one of his 'look at me, i cant act' roles. my kids were in stitches staring meaningfully, and for long, long minutes into each other's eyes, but then, they are human.
epic classical themese here, transported into a milieu (and a country of production) that cannot support them. pleasant for passing time on a long plane journey, for example, or anywhere where time does not matter - perhaps that was the plan.