Paramount Vantage | Release Date: March 10, 2006
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JayE.Apr 10, 2006
This film was so dreadful, my wife has relieved me for cause as the movie chooser. One scene alone really worked: the hero's being nearly overwhelmed by nighttime surf; and even that scene was too long by half. Many of the others were This film was so dreadful, my wife has relieved me for cause as the movie chooser. One scene alone really worked: the hero's being nearly overwhelmed by nighttime surf; and even that scene was too long by half. Many of the others were ludicrous: a desperate down-and-outer spending his last dime on a beer which he then pours into a spitoon to spite a waitress he dislikes ; a destitue Mexican waitresswho can't afford proper shoes, but owns an automobile; an earthquake which leaves its dead victims atop, rather than buried by, fallen buildings; a TB victim on her death bed looking like a cover girl and using her last breath to deliver fluent, Dale Carnegie-like advice onthe value of making a good first impression. This woefully miscast mess lacked credibility, continuity and character development. My genteel wife said it all " I hate this expression, but that movie truly sucked." [The 1 point is for set dressing] Expand
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GeorgeR.Mar 11, 2006
Narrowing the grand -- though no less lonely -- scope of the book, to the hero
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FrankDDec 24, 2006
I've seen a hefty percantage of films released in 2006, and this was one was hands-down, the worst. I saw other ones that were terrible, but at least some of them had a few redeeming qualities, if nothing else, unintentionally funny. I've seen a hefty percantage of films released in 2006, and this was one was hands-down, the worst. I saw other ones that were terrible, but at least some of them had a few redeeming qualities, if nothing else, unintentionally funny. This one plays likes one long prison sentence. The main reason I bother to post a comment at all is to say that I've seen four movies starring hot boy-du-jour Colin Farrell (Alexander, Phone Booth, A Home at the End of the World, plus this dreck). Except for his intense good looks, what do film directors see in this guy??? I think he is truly a poor actor. All hyoe, no delivery.("Troy Donahue of the new millenium"). Hopefully, he'll disappear soon, and we can return to watching real actors like Philip Seymour Hoffman, Edward Norton, and others who are far more worthy of their salaries and our ticket money and attnetion. Expand
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SimoneD.Mar 11, 2006
Really underwhelming. Hayek always seemed like she was acting. Never believed she was this poor mexican woman. Perfect make up, hair, even her waitress uniform was spottless. Colin was fine, but that's it. Book is way to literary to Really underwhelming. Hayek always seemed like she was acting. Never believed she was this poor mexican woman. Perfect make up, hair, even her waitress uniform was spottless. Colin was fine, but that's it. Book is way to literary to have been adapted. Expand
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