Scenery with little plot.

Rating: 4/10 (27 October 2012)

I love movies based on ancient European cities, full of history, scenery and culture. When the movie was over, I found that scenery was all I could take away from it. It would seem that the underlying message of the movie is that people are idiots, will make poor decisions, and still everything will be alright in the end. This movie could have been filmed in any city, town or farmstead, but having Rome at its centre, the weak script, characters whose actions do not follow, and lame dialogue are almost forgivable. Did anyone understand why Alec Baldwin continually showed up at the scene of every activity among the college friends? How bored is an older gentlemen that he has to spend days following a group of unimpressive students around, and how is it the students tolerate him? This looked like it could have been a great movie, but was such a let-down.