Product: The Bachelor (1999)
Rating: 3.0
Good harmless romantic comedy
This movie was critically destroyed when it was released, but it is not that bad, it is a harmless little romantic comedy. The worst thing about it is that its view of male-female relationships is so backward - especially in a movie set in modern-day San Francisco!. Chris O'Donnell is not a great actor, but he is good portraying this earnest, somewhat shallow man. And Renee, well, she is the best thing in the picture, she shines, as usual. And the scene where O'Donnell fumbles his marriage proposal to Zellweger - in many ways the central scene of the movie - is pretty funny. I haven't seen Buster Keaton original movie, but I don't doubt it was superior to this, but this movie is a nice time-killer in a rainy friday night.