Don Q

The film's interesting plot could have done with better direction and/or screenplay. While the acting is a little off, the humour underlying the dialogue seeps through and hits home every now and then. The last fifteen minutes of the film are profound, acting as the saving grace for a film that's about sixty minutes of just following a man around aimlessly. The dialogue in the film attempts to be quote worthy and in some instances it achieves it but to no great effect that would make it lasting memory. In the closing scenes, realism vs fantasy, and the result of our actions creating the world we seek make for a good ending to a film that had dragged for too long. Some scenes come off as rather pointless, however comedic or artistic the intentions behind them were. These scenes should not have been so long, or in the film at all. Don Q is a bad film I would not mind watching again. It is understandable that only cinephiles will enjoy (or endure) a film like this. My rating is a 5/10 and 4 of those points come from the last scene of the film and Amanda Assante being the only decent things about the film.