Deep awe and reverence ... not.

Rating: 4/10 (7 January 2005)

Good to see Diane Kruger again, but apart from that, this was a mixture of formulaic stuff with credibility-stretching escapades and, of course, deep reverence paid to an American national icon that we British would quite happily see lost! (OK, slight overstatement there, but come on ... when are film-makers going to realise that we in Europe care about "ancient" American 'national treasures' about as much as Americans care about Belgium's national architectural style?) It could have been worse -- it could have been about basketball or baseball -- but I can't see this scoring with non-US voters anywhere near as well as it did with US voters. The only award it may deserve is for the sets, some of which must have cost a ton of money.