When a mouse upstages Tom Hanks, something ain't right...

Rating: 4/10 (12 December 1999)

This is an amazing waste of everyone's talent...you know the movie is going to be awful when it begins with an old man remembering something which changed his life, and you know it's really really awful, when the character he's remembering at says at the end of the tale, "...but there's something I don't understand..." You know the old man is going to, with a twinkle in his eye, reveal the mystery that puts the twist on the whole story.....and it'll turn your stomach with it's preposterousness... Tom Hanks does a good job: he usually does (good ol' Tom) and the supporting cast is all equally good, but the story is so melodramatic and so emotionally contrived that the final effect is that I'm sure I won't remember a thing about this movie 5 minutes after I finish typing this...in fact I can't think of much about it now...what a blessing!!! Long story short, an innocent man is going to die and there's not enough tragedy in that; he needs to be a miracle worker, also. But I don't care, and I'm pretty sure you won't, but it'll earn a heap of award nominations and as long as it doesn't win for writing, then I won't complain...much.