Captain Sinks Ship

Rating: Null/10 (4 January 2007)

Director Gabriele Muccino may be big in Italian films, but his first English language film can only be described as a bore. That's pretty hard to accomplish with someone as talented and interesting as Will Smith as your movie's star, but Muccino manages to accomplish it with the help of a script that piles problem after problem on our poor, poor hero to the point where we don't sympathize him, but rather want to say "Gimmie a break".
The fact of the matter is things were not nearly so dismal for Chris Gardner as this movie would have you believe as it veers from a dull story about his marriage falling apart to a dull story about his being unable to sell the medical machines (in real life he didn't buy them and sell them, he just sold them for the company that makes them---no out of pocket investment) to a fairly interesting story about him getting a unpaid (in real life he was paid) internship at Dean Witter. But Muccino and the script are more about exploring the "poor, poor me" aspects of the story than the interesting part, and even that is made dreary.
I cannot imagine why I would ever want to watch this film again.