smelt like french brie

Rating: 1/10 (18 May 2006)

with my namesake in the film i had some expectations for this film. Sadly this all went the way of bad French cheese and just smelt. Hanks was wooden, mckeller was just rehearsing for x-men 3 and audrey was downright useless. The only redeeming feature was Silas trying to put them down. Otherwise it was a snorefest - I think Ron had gone for thickshakes with the Fonz at Arnolds. It was a very tedious tale (2.5 hrs) with next to nothing in terms of plot and character development and story you just had to laugh at to make it bearable. Sadly the hype for the film was necessary in order to sell the flop that it was. I cannot say I have read the book but even without that the translation was ridiculous. There were plenty of laboured and unnecessary scenes - in particular the Swiss Bank series - we were in stitches. Overall - avoid like the plague