Didn't live up to its potential.

Rating: 9/10 (6 March 2007)

Working on a great premise, it's a good movie that could have been great. Is this another example of a good story fallen prey to Hollywood re-write hell? Ferrell didn't do well at all (stick to slapstick), but the rest of the cast was fantastic. Hoffman's performance alone makes it worth watching. Can't figure out why we needed an extra character in the form of Latifah's assistant - her presence didn't move the story forward, and I we didn't learn much about Thompson's author that we couldn't have gleaned ourselves.
Nice little movie overall. I'll have to watch it a couple of times more to see if Ferrell grows on me, but I'm not gonna get my hopes up.