Supremely annoying

Rating: 2/10 (12 November 2011)

This movie annoyed me to no end. A middling script is one thing, a middling script with a fancy director and 10 A-List actors is truly something else.
At times, I felt like I was watching a private hobby project, an inside joke movie, a pet farce Soderbergh put together as a gift for a friend getting married. I'm pretty sure none of the stars REALLY cared - after all, none of them had to carry the movie! It was like an NBA All-Star game without anything on the line. They probably did enjoy their European vacation, their relaxing getaway from the responsibilities of having to be The Man. (Or The Woman, in the case of Julia R.)
And Soderbergh... He is at the point in his career where he can direct in his sleep, and it shows. I used to think of him as a genius, now I think of him as a caricature of himself. Dud.