So good and then soooo bad...

Rating: 7/10 (3 August 2005)

This movie has (almost) everything. A unique idea, well written for the most part, excellent acting on behalf of Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughan. Funny funny funny and then in the last quarter - absolutely no conclusion, no climax, no wit. The scene in the church is ridiculous and let the actors dangle in a soupy mixture of cheese and those really bad Goldie-Hawn-Style cheapos. The grim, ever so well introduced and portrayed character Secretary Cleary played by Walken suddenly looses ground and the plot falls apart. Execution here fails even the most subtle expectation. Was there no more money for a better written ending or no more time to edit two or three more scenes with a more appropriate finish? In any case, I give it a 10 for potential, but only a 5 for a very disappointing lack of confidence toward the end.