Australia I just got done turning this off midway -- it was AWFUL. Embarrassingly bad. A complete and utter rambling melodramatic mess. I have no idea what they were thinking. the basic story could have been told straight, with a complete rewrite, and perhaps made interesting. But they made an utter pseudo comedy/pseduo artsy/pseudy spirtually, badly edited, terribly acted complete mess out of it. Avoid at all costs. That sucked.
Let's put it this way -- this reveiw comes from someboyd who went in expecting something at the level of Far and Away, and came out extremely disappointed because it was nowhere near as good. Or good at all.
Been on a bad streak recently. Saw The Governess the night before, and it was wildly bad itslef. Anachronistic, unfocused, badly directed, featuring an erratic nonsencisla performance for Minnie Driver and erratic characterizatrions of the peope around her that made no sense whatsoever. And to top it off at the end its clear that the amateurish director, who also wrote the thing, has been constantly manipulating things because she thinks that her "heroine" (an alleged 19th century slutty virgin who lies around talking to her sister about wanting to taste semen (sorry)) is in the right, when all she has done since the beginning of the movie is lie, steal, seduce, and in the end destroy a family while neglecting her charge and fundamentally failing to fulfill her duties.
The night before that I tried an old Harrison Ford flick called Frantic, which I vaguely remembered from back in the day (just the name, never saw it). Was even directed by Roman Polanski. And yet was awful. Terrible performance by Ford, ridiculous narrative (the main character is an idiot who constantly does nonsensical things), no chemsitry whatsoever between any of the characters, and about the least "frantic" movie you could possibly make about this supposedly Frantic situation.
Its just been a week of suxors.
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