A series of idiotic events

Rating: 3/10 (29 December 2005)

How can this turkey have an average rating of 7.1? Does nobody else resent being swindled out of 2 hrs of their time + rental costs? Do you rate a film at 7+ just because it's in color and has sound? What are the criteria here?
This moronic concoction embodies the worst of big-time Hollywood filmwriting, with lots of cheap "feel good" moments pulled out of nowhere by utterly illogical (and often incredible) plot contrivances. Accompanied, of course, by the requisite "uplifting" orchestral surges.
Plus it assumes (or rather affirms) that we are all ignorant of anything in the rest of the world. I watched this with an eastern European immigrant friend and was embarrassed for my country. How can we spend tens of millions making such tripe? And by the way, Viktor's documents are in Russian, and he studies a Russian guidebook to learn English. So much for authenticity, should you expect even that.
Don't waste your time. If you watch this film despite my warning and think that you enjoyed it, try to remember if you ever had a frontal lobotomy. That could explain it.