Million Dollar Booby

Rating: 6/10 (6 March 2005)

Disappointed.
I invariably enjoy Clint Eastwood, rate Hilary Swank, and relish anything with Morgan Freeman in it.
Don't get me wrong, however - there's nothing really wrong with this movie, simply that we've seen it all before. Now I come to write about it, you know what taste it leaves me with? That of a Sunday afternoon made-for-TV movie - decent production values, distinctly pedestrian script enthusiastically delivered in amateurish fashion (I know - shocking, considering the cast, but perhaps the tight filming schedule had something to do with it), and a hackneyed, seen-it-all-before plot.
Let me try and draw on the positives: Morgan Freeman - sterling performance under trying circumstances... erm... that's about it, actually. Just too many problems with poorly drawn stereotypes and insufficiently developed, confusing subplots.
Did it move me? Crumbs, no! Oscar-winner? Hmmmm...
Still, there y'go. 6/10