Appalling trash

Rating: 1/10 (14 May 2007)

Hugh Grant is finished. This movie killed his career. He should never have taken the part. His bump and grind was pathetic at the beginning of the two-hour agony, and it was desperate at the end. Drew Barrymore --- why is she an actress? Her chin needs hours of work by the cameraman to reduce it, and her voice is, well, very ordinary. Her role as the cleaning lady was utterly unconvincing and her role as a songwriter was even worse. The big hit that Hugh and she wrote together would have failed even the very early screening rounds of Pop Idol in Grand Rapids. The movie's plot was so formulaic that it gave formulae a bad name. The only person who shone out in this picture was Haley Bennett --- she was electric! Why wasn't the film about HER? When the two heroes walked out of her party, I felt I was being dragged away from the action by two losers: horribly to pay for a ticket for such a feeling! Hugh's blathering rubbish about how wonderful the "music industry" is was just the very worst speech I have ever seen such an actor deliver. To think he achieved an Oxford degree to appear in this trash. Sad, sad, sad.