No sense, no feeling.

Rating: 4/10 (30 January 2001)

The only thing that struck me about the film adaptation of "The Beach" was the immense lack of any feeling I might have had after viewing it. Not once did I laugh or cry, or have any emotion tweaked in it's entire running time. It seems to me that filmmakers have always had trouble conveying any decent story set in a tropical place- "The Blue Lagoon" anyone? How about "Six Days, Seven Nights"? Even the recent "Castaway" had trouble telling its story by just jumping to "Four Years Later..." in the narrative.Oh well.