This film is moving into the territory where they start to become interesting again, because they are so awful. On paper this looks like a great cast. Many of these people have carried terrific films and/or TV shows. But here it all goes west due to two major culprits - the direction and the music. Bad direction is nothing new, but music this bad, so utterly innapropriate, so undynamic, so clumsy have I rarely heard. The whole film is infected with this musak-like mire of dross that fails to accentuate anything. Someone gets killed - the strings drone on. No key change, no brass, no drums - nothing. At times it's almost like they have lifted the music from another film and not bothered to re-clip it to fit the action (little such that there is).
The direction I blame for making a talented cast look like a bunch of kids making a school play, on their second last show. There is no spark, no enthusiasm (except for Cleese who really seems to be trying), and absolutely no communication with the audience.
The only reason I gave it three rather than one in the rating here is a nice plot twist at the end (and not the entirely expected one that also happened) and one quite funny scene with Ben Kingsley as a wildly ego-tripping chef.
Avoid!
The direction I blame for making a talented cast look like a bunch of kids making a school play, on their second last show. There is no spark, no enthusiasm (except for Cleese who really seems to be trying), and absolutely no communication with the audience.
The only reason I gave it three rather than one in the rating here is a nice plot twist at the end (and not the entirely expected one that also happened) and one quite funny scene with Ben Kingsley as a wildly ego-tripping chef.
Avoid!