Ron Howard - Gone la la.

Rating: 1/10 (17 October 2006)

What the heck had Ron Howard been drinking when he was directing this? The book may go down in history as the best selling novel of all time but the film may earn the title 'worst movie' of all time. I cannot recall a bigger waste of money and talent. Hanks should be ashamed of himself for agreeing to do this movie.Fair enough he was paid a fortune for his time but to be associated with it is so damaging to a fine actor of his calibre. I won't attempt to write about the plot, or rather the lack of a cohesive narrative, it shoots off at different tangents with too many unexplained threads and is so incredibly poorly done that it felt like a couple of dozen part-time second unit directors had been given a free-hand and allowed to go bananas with the script and plot. I have to admit that I have been a fan of Ron Howard and he has made some pretty good stuff but this... What a complete load of tripe!