Stars on the wane

Rating: 3/10 (20 January 2008)

With this film you can feel three stars are on the wane and are choosing their material out of desperation. Kate thought "Cameron's in it, so it may be a hit"; Jude thought "Cameron's in it, so it can't be bad"; Cameron thought: "Jude and Kate are in it and have British accents, so it may do for me what Notting Hill did for Julia". But obviously they did not read the script, especially the notes "to be ham-acted". Cameron ham-acted the first scene so brilliantly I am surprised she was ever offered another acting job (in fact, she was just given the speaking role in various Shreks afterwards). Kate managed to act through the first scene but then stuck to her safe laugh of wonderment throughout the rest of the film (but what else could she do when presented with the psycho-look lover to replace the manipulative lover?). Jude slimed through the role asleep in preparation for his destruction of "Sleuth". This sort of British-movie-for-Christmas should now be declared officially dead. There is nothing good to be said about money being invested in bad scripts, bad acting and bad films.