One of the worst directed and acted movies I have ever suffered

Rating: 1/10 (29 April 2007)

At first this seemed a light piece of fluff and, as it has some actors that have done well in other films, I hung on to the bitter end. THE SPOILER IS THAT THE END IS UTTERLY PREDICTABLE FROM THE FIRST SCENES' A SPOILER IS THEREFORE IMPOSSIBLE. Well, a predictable end is not bad per se; we all know how Hamlet ends but we will still watch a good production. Alas, Yorick, the director sank this cast into the most juvenile dialogue ever written; the editor mismatched the pace and timing throughout (it dragged on so!); and the love scenes were wooden and uninspired. The lovely cottage in Surrey looked like a movie set (if 'twas, 'twas done poorly; if 'twasn't, even worse). I can't imagine how the actors got trapped in this grade C date flick for the under 14 set; those agents responsible should be hanged. Of course it wasn't rated R; there was nothing adult about it whatsoever. The best scene: none comes to mind. The worst scene: the driver refuses to take the visitor to the lovely cottage because he can't turn his car around; throughout the rest of the movie Jude Law tottles about it in his Land Rover. Doesn't anybody check these scripts for logic? Obviously nobody checks for banality.