wrong fuel

Rating: 5/10 (7 May 2006)

In my opinion, the generous viewers who gave this film top marks believe that engine works on bathos. No: engines work on highly explosive fuel mixture and expertise, none of it visible here. Munro is described as a god old-timer with a bee in his bonnet and some back-in-the-woods good sens. Why do scriptwriters believe that the public is a technical moron in this technical world? Why is it all right to show the highly technical way Audrey Hepburn learns to break an egg in "Sabrina" (1954), and unacceptable to explain a minimum of how to lower a center of gravity, and what's a fuel blend (even Schwarzenegger shows how to blend explosives in The 6th Day)? Viewers are indeed supposed to have a heart, but they are not necessarily brain-dead. This film is only a rehash of The Triumphant Underdog, midway between "It's a Wonderful World" and "Pretty Lady". We don't need a Kiwi filmmaker to make our heart throb: we've already got Hollywood for that.