An average movie

Honestly, it took me some time to appreciate Gérard Depardieu’s work. I mean, the guy is some kind of workaholic, he has made maybe 160 movies already, still making up to 5 movies a year, and many of them are pretty worthless. Still, after watching many movies starring this guy (almost 50 which is a lot but it is not even a third of what he has done!), I started to slowly appreciate what he does and when he gets the right material, he is quite amazing. Anyway, with his great international status, it is not surprising that he tried a couple of times to work in the USA, usually, with some rather disappointing results. This movie is, unfortunately, one of those. Basically, he got to work with Norman Jewison, a fine director who made some pretty good flicks such as ‘The Thomas Crown Affair’ or ‘The Hurricane’ but, this time, they were all stuck in some boring and cheesy plot. Indeed, even though it was fun to see Haley Joel Osment before he reached fame with ‘The Sixth Sense’, I didn’t care much about the whole thing. And if you add Whoopi Goldberg giving her usual obnoxious performance to the mix, the whole thing was pretty much doomed from the start. To conclude, even though I have seen worse, it remains a rather boring family feature and it is not really worth a look, I’m afraid.

5/10