Self-consciously and yet helplessly dull

Rating: 2/10 (13 May 2010)

This was only interesting in its first scene. It was unwatchable thereafter. It was a snooze for the much greater part. It's as though all of the zest was almost desperately contained in the first scene. I felt stupidly compelled to watch the rest of it, as it was an Oscar-winner, after all. It simply lost its bearing early during the film, and to watch the remainder of it was a chore. It was almost obscenely lazy and deliberately unfocused at that point. Simply stated, it was boring. I'd be embarrassed to recommend it to anyone. To be honest, though, I'd be hard-pressed to remember anything I actively hated about it--the movie was not particularly memorable.