You know exactly where it's going and what the result will be...
A real shame because once American movies could deliver a romantic comedy with wit and light touch but also an insight into men and women. It was a unique quality that other countries could not do; well, apart from the French.
No more. Neither of the leads can save this badly directed movie with its sophomore script. Keaton needs direction otherwise she falters and resumes her aging girlie giggles from Annie Hall days. Nicholson is not really a character in this movie, he's a 4X2 of plot devices to move the action along. And well, Reeves: the toy boy eye candy for the female audience is a simpering fool of a male character.
Get a Preston Sturges movie to see how it should be done. Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck can still bring a smile even 60 plus years after they made The Lady Eve.
A real shame because once American movies could deliver a romantic comedy with wit and light touch but also an insight into men and women. It was a unique quality that other countries could not do; well, apart from the French.
No more. Neither of the leads can save this badly directed movie with its sophomore script. Keaton needs direction otherwise she falters and resumes her aging girlie giggles from Annie Hall days. Nicholson is not really a character in this movie, he's a 4X2 of plot devices to move the action along. And well, Reeves: the toy boy eye candy for the female audience is a simpering fool of a male character.
Get a Preston Sturges movie to see how it should be done. Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck can still bring a smile even 60 plus years after they made The Lady Eve.