Like they say, you can spot a cockerel from the moment it is hatched, you can actually tell a great movie in the first ten minutes most of the time. Occasionally a movie comes along that builds slowly to a great climax at the very end. That is the hope that kept me through this excruciatingly boring attempt at film-making. I mean, who can tell me the point of this movie? Not once in the entire movie did anything so much as evoked a smile on my face yet they billed it as a comedy.
The title character is supposed to be suffering from obsessive-compulsive personality disorder but apparently no one taught the actor what a patient with OCD should look like. Hasn't the actor watched the title character in The Aviator? There is a flicker of ramance in the movie but in the end you wonder if Roger loves Florence or he is just feeling sorry for her. The part of the movie that featured an unplanned pregnancy and an abortion is so emotionally dry you could swear some other couple are involved not them. We are not even told who is the father of the baby but we can infer that it is Roger because Florence denied sleeping with the other guy. In spite of this, you do not see any emotions displayed by Roger or Florence before or after the abortion - this is so unreal for those who have actually been through this experience in real life.
Another totally incongruous piece in this movie is the caligraphy hanging on the wall of the home Roger was staying in. We are made to believe that this is a Jewish home yet the caligraphy is the Arabic script that translates to "In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful and the Most Beneficient". Well, if this was meant to be a subliminal message that is supposed to show that Jews and Arabs have a common ground, no mention of Islam or the presentation of an Arab character featured in this totally pointless movie.
In the end, the climax that I anticipated to give this movie a reason for being never materialized. I was left wondering what was it all about. This is clearly the kind of movie you should be watching in a blizzard when you are sure there are no taxis available and your home is far away.
The title character is supposed to be suffering from obsessive-compulsive personality disorder but apparently no one taught the actor what a patient with OCD should look like. Hasn't the actor watched the title character in The Aviator? There is a flicker of ramance in the movie but in the end you wonder if Roger loves Florence or he is just feeling sorry for her. The part of the movie that featured an unplanned pregnancy and an abortion is so emotionally dry you could swear some other couple are involved not them. We are not even told who is the father of the baby but we can infer that it is Roger because Florence denied sleeping with the other guy. In spite of this, you do not see any emotions displayed by Roger or Florence before or after the abortion - this is so unreal for those who have actually been through this experience in real life.
Another totally incongruous piece in this movie is the caligraphy hanging on the wall of the home Roger was staying in. We are made to believe that this is a Jewish home yet the caligraphy is the Arabic script that translates to "In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful and the Most Beneficient". Well, if this was meant to be a subliminal message that is supposed to show that Jews and Arabs have a common ground, no mention of Islam or the presentation of an Arab character featured in this totally pointless movie.
In the end, the climax that I anticipated to give this movie a reason for being never materialized. I was left wondering what was it all about. This is clearly the kind of movie you should be watching in a blizzard when you are sure there are no taxis available and your home is far away.