What mystery?

Rating: 1/10 (16 October 2010)

The real mystery is why anyone should put up the money to make such a blatant piece of garbage. Badly written, badly directly, badly photographed, and excruciatingly badly acted, there is nothing to recommend this at all. If you liked the Phillip Glass, then go out and buy the cd. Otherwise don't waste your time. One can easily why an egomaniac like Norton wanted to do this. He gets to do an 'accent'. The problem is, his English accent is abysmal at best and embarrassing at worst, and often just plain non-existent. As to the others, only Giamatti manages not to embarrass himself (except for the fact that he did this trash in the first place). As to the mystery, there is none. It's obvious from the first 20 minutes to anyone with half a brain. So the remainder of the film just slogs along to it's inevitable conclusion at a snail's pace. Hopefully, the writer/director won't soon be allowed to make another such piece of trash for some time, but I doubt that. This is what passes for 'intelligent' in today's Hollyweed, more's the pity.