Empty and soulless

Rating: Null/10 (3 March 2009)

To sum it up in a nutshell, I did NOT like this film! I won't go into my film and TV background but, suffice to say, I have the credentials. I found the two main characters: Dan and Peachy to be utterly devoid of scruples and anything approaching what one would call "the milk of human kindness"....They're human vessels that simply "go through the moves" like some sort of twisted Martin and Lewis opus! As far as I'm concerned they had no redeeming qualities whatsoever! Even a stinker like Ralph Meeker's "Iceman" in "Big House USA" gives one a desire to root for him - even though he's a real schmuck! I was really disappointed at the end when Peachy drops in on Kipling with his bag. I expected for him to pull the huge ruby from it's depths and say that Peachy was living fat and sassy among the natives as their ruler, but nooooo! It brings to mind Addison Richards' ill-fated character Krofton in 1940's "Northwest Passage" where he asks the other rangers if they're hungry......"Hungry? - I'm not!" He just happens to have the severed head of an Abanaki Indian in his bag that he, ahem, uses in place of trail mix.....Get my drift?