Worst movie mistake, make characters we couldn't give a stuff about

Rating: 3/10 (11 September 2009)

I saw this almost a decade ago on the big screen. A decade ago Leonardo Decaprio still had a lot to prove despite finding teen pin up status as the doomed peasant in Titanic and as one of the star crossed lovers in Romeo and Juliet. He proved he was capable of making a film that wasn't really any good at all.
Watching Tilda Swindon rave to Yeke Yeke was downright embarrassing. The scene where Leo's character Richard runs through the jungle in computer game style animation almost destroys the effort to keep taking the film seriously.
Robert Carlyle gets to do an impression of a Glaswegian Junkie/alcoholic screaming his head off in a Thailand hotel corridor, smokes a joint with Leo boy and is seen later in a really stupid dream sequence (in the trailer, that said sequence is sold to the audience as an action segment with Carlyle waving a gun around and shouting at a scared Richard, so its a bit of a cheat)then he is never seen again.
The french actress was pretty and her in the ocean 'sex' scene had all the glamour of a Bounty advert. This film bored me to tears. Avoid.