a good opportunity

Rating: 8/10 (19 December 2006)

Thank God they didn't let Muccino write the script. In this case, as a director he could made but minimal mistakes. This shows how an excellent script and a wonderful performance can make a great movie even when the director has really no fantasy and just some technical skills. His 2 previous Italian movie were really boring, just focused on minimal target characters, definitely talking just to an audience of 30-ers with money, without an idea of where to go and do of their life. Just the first movie was of some freshness, about adolescents at school and their discovery of sex. Hope this movie opens a new path both for Muccino in order to change his mind and NEVER write stories any longer, and most of all for the wonderful Will Smith. Too often the movie industry cages actors in a genre, and this was exactly the risk for Smith: here he shows us how he can act in a different context - and successfully! How many other possibilities will he catch?