Torture!

Rating: 1/10 (23 January 2002)

This unbearable movie is torture to sit through. Witless, arch and heavy-handed, it is essentially a wan imitation of a Ken Russell movie. Nicole Kidman has all the charm of a dead codfish, but John Leguizamo is shockingly bad -- his performance is a textbook for bad comic timing. And Baz Luhrmann shows a dreary lack of imagination in the obvious, uninspired songs he uses. The absolute pits.