Ebert missed badly on this one. Mike Clark's USA Today review is spot-on.
I finally got my hands on a copy of this in the last couple of years. Had my eye out for it since they began marketing dvd's. Bliss.
Epic performance by Irons.......this film is an A.
I think Ebert was being pretty generous here. I thought this whole movie was so wildly depressing and thoroughly unpleasant. No likeable characters, no levity, and a completely unfulfilled premise.
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