O Último Romântico

As in his previous outing "Primary Colors" (1998), once again Adrian Lester (cab-driver Jimmy) provides the moral thread interconnecting the hapless antiheroes of this lightweight hokum, in which writer-director Kane fondly intertwines tales of failure love and rejection. Uneven and didactic, though typically multiethnic in British style, the diverse parts of this ensemble never quite gel into a glutinous whole, and in the finale our all-seeing widowed taxi-driver (an updated "Wonderful Life" Clarence-type) is sucked into the gummy extension of self-interest known as coupledom (note, not a single child in the entire story). Ironically, twenty years on, defending the solipsism of singlehood has been elevated to a form of high art.