Average

Rating: 7/10 (30 March 1999)

I liked the in-jokes, Geoffrey Rush and Judi Dench. But I wonder how Joseph Fiennes got near there. He's good at posing, but I don't call it acting. He masters two face expressions and the same number of gestures (one for love scenes and another for 'get-off-my-way' elbowing through the crowd in 'dramatic' moments). I agree with all who say the story's superficial, anomalous and mellow - it is. And after Gwyneth Paltrow, who will be the next Oscar winner? Pamela Anderson? All in all, the film's quite funny, yet average.