I read lots of these comments and am stunned at the gullibility of the general public. This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen with the audience being asked to accept impossible situations, cliché characters, an appalling musak score and 2 hours of boredom in a bathtub. There is no way, for example, that people on a boat could walk around on deck in some of the effects-waves we were asked to watch, and no way a helicopter could stay aloft in winds we were asked to accept. God knows what George Clooney was doing in this dog - maybe had a contractual obligation or somesuch. This movie is an example of the power of mass marketing and is without value except at the box office. The only redeeming feature is that it didn't run to 3 hrs. I watched, fascinated by it's dreadful dreariness right to the clichéd end, thinking of what the $120M cost MIGHT have produced.
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A Different Loyalty
(2004)
Stone Does It Again Pity About Everett
11 July 2007
Sharon Stone is the product of the Hollywood marketing machine but sadly again displays the fact that she just can't act. As always she's always too intense and comes across with first year drama school responses. This movie is a bore and it's understandable that it never got a theatre release. Messy and boring. Supposedly based on Kim Philby, so why the silly name changes? Rupert Everett must have needed the money or been obliged to take part through contractual obligations. He's a fine actor and tried hard in this dog but simply couldn't make any headway with his co-"star" and a lousy shallow script. At least they could have done some basic research and got some of the planes, buildings and cars right!
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