I was surprised how good this was. I must admit, when it began I wasn't actually too sure that I'd see it through but its clever twisting plot, its genuinely funny humour and its very likeable characters quickly won me over. I almost felt like clapping at the end!
It has a similar structure to those old American 1930s screwball comedies with a multitude of twists and turns so you're never quite sure what's going to happen next. Were Howard Hawks around today, this is the kind of thing he's be doing. It's not however just the clever script which keeps you smiling or the dynamic direction which at times really mounts up the tension to keep you on the edge of your seat, it's the characters. They're just so naturally likeable. As you'd expect Rachel McAdams is brilliant and so is someone I've never heard of before called Jason Bateman - I realised about halfway through that he wasn't Mark Wahlberg!
It has a similar structure to those old American 1930s screwball comedies with a multitude of twists and turns so you're never quite sure what's going to happen next. Were Howard Hawks around today, this is the kind of thing he's be doing. It's not however just the clever script which keeps you smiling or the dynamic direction which at times really mounts up the tension to keep you on the edge of your seat, it's the characters. They're just so naturally likeable. As you'd expect Rachel McAdams is brilliant and so is someone I've never heard of before called Jason Bateman - I realised about halfway through that he wasn't Mark Wahlberg!