Wish it had worked!

Rating: 2/10 (11 January 2002)

*Almost* a brilliant valentine to twentieth-century popular culture, set at the end of the nineteenth and produced at the dawn of the twenty-first. Unfortunately, it's a visually stunning but unwatchable mess, with a couple of fantastic musical numbers thrown in ("Like a Virgin," "Roxanne"). Clearly the director needed the discipline of (e.g.) a script by Shakespeare. You can tell anybody this is your song. But don't.