An average movie

Back in the 80’s, Rob Reiner was one of the most successful directors at work. I mean, just check his track-record, it is quite impressive (‘This Spinal Tap’, ‘The Sure Thing’, ‘Stand by Me’, ‘The Princess Bride’, ‘When Harry Met Sally...’, ‘Misery’, ‘A Few Good Men’). But then, he made ‘North’. Indeed, it was a massive flop, both financially and critically, and it seems that already 20 years later Rob Reiner has still not recovered from the damage. A couple of years later, he came up with this movie and even though it was starring Bruce Willis and Michelle Pfeiffer, two of the most bankable actors at the time, it was still a commercial and critical failure. Personally, I thought it was actually not bad at all and actually fairly enjoyable. Sure, it wasn’t a masterpiece whatsoever and it never comes near the level of ‘When Harry Met Sally...’ but I thought that the characters were well written, Willis and Pfeiffer were obviously really charismatic and I thought that they had a good chemistry together. To conclude, even though the whole thing was not really amazing, I still think it is actually a decent romantic-comedy and it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

6/10