Reviews

This is comedy! Sometimes people are offended by stuff like this, but really! How could anybody be offended by silliness like this? Some reviewers found Akroyds "personalities" offensive. I found them amusing as they, of course, should not be taken seriously. It's slapstick, not Ingmar Bergman!

The movie was well paced, and reasonably suspenseful as such a movie that tries to follow in the footsteps of movies like "48 hours" should be.

There's one thing I dislike about this movie, however, and that's Dom DeLouise. He tries his best to ruin this movie, as he tries to ruin every other movie I have ever seen him in. That man simply cannot act! It makes you wonder why he's in so many movies. Does anybody know?

Based on the other reviews I almost didn't watch this, but once again it shows that what's comedy for someone is not necessarily comedy for everyone.

I enjoyed it a lot this late evening, and will probably watch it again, and give it a solid 8.

Possibly because I was positively surprised after reading the other reviews...

Great acting and atmosphere.

But somewhere the story got lost. It does feel like 5 books was made into one movie. Which, I believe is what happened here. What a stupid idea! Maybe it's easier to follow for those who have read the books.

Despite that, everything else is excellent.

Viggo Mortensen is superb. And since I don't speak Spanish, I don't care if his accent may be a bit wrong.

Would certainly have been even better in a theater, but it was direct to DVD. That was a shame, too.

I give this a 7. With a coherent story it could have been a 10.