stunningly vacuous

Rating: Null/10 (27 May 2003)

The original wasn't much, but Soderbergh's remake makes that movie look like The Seven Samurai. 100-plus minutes of ultracool posturing, forced humor, and stylishly lazy diction (Brad Pitt can barely talk under the best of circumstances, and in this movie he chows down almost every time he's on screen). For those who enjoy watching dangerously "aging" sex-goddesses get put down, there's also The Protracted Humiliation of Julia Roberts thrown in for bad measure. (The character is so passive she barely exists, and the actress is lit to look like Ichabod Crane in drag.) A shameful piece of work by Soderbergh.