This is a great film

Rating: 9/10 (23 July 2005)

I really like this film and think it is grossly underrated and wrongly criticised for being too long. The people who level this criticism obviously have no idea about films that take their time, which when done properly reward the viewer much more richly than any MTV goldfish attention span MTV Hollywood-twee twaddle ever could. Claire Forlani has to be one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen and Brad Pitt is a much better actor than he is given credit for and the emotion that sparks between them is spell-binding. Hopkins, as always, applies his reliable safe pair of hands to the script and the score is also terrifically evocative. So if you're not a goldfish give this one a go, I think you'll like it.