rogerkread

Terrible film in so many ways. The presence of Anthony Hopkins can't redeem this tripe, but that is why I was prepared to give it a second star. The story is beyond parody it's so bad. Pitt is (as often) pitiably poor, but his self obsession in the film is possibly a reflection of his self obsession in real life. The idea that a multi-millionaire can be a deserving and upright person at all is fairly bizarre (to become rich you must have made many other people poor, obviously, and in any case the only reasonable course of action should be to give it all to charity) but I guess that's the USA for you. As to Death being an innocent abroad!! Never mind, it's tripe, but people who like tripe will give it a high rating so there we are.

Probably seen as clever in its day, but really! Stock characters with no depth, 'witty' dialogue which becomes boring after 10 minutes, completely uninteresting story never mind its complexity. Yes there is 'chemistry' between Bacall and Bogie, but there has to be more than that, and some nice cinematography here and there, to keep you interested. Hadn't seen it for years, thought it had been an entertaining film - I was wrong.

Despite the obvious attractions of Johanna Kanska, who is as outrageously gorgeous as ever, this is a real let down after the sagas of Lowlands University. Low on satire, very low on fun. I was waiting for it to end for at least half an hour.