An excerpt of a review posted on Schaeffer's Ghost:
Let’s start with the basics: This is a fun movie. Yes, Colin Farrell spends the bulk of the movie blundering about with a bewildered look on his face. Fortunately, Farrell does bewildered extremely well, and his wide-eyed innocence and natural charisma endear him to the audience from the get-go. Kate Beckinsdale has apparently not aged a day since Underworld, and it turns out she makes a far better villainness than a rom-com queen. The screening audience reacted audibly every time she burst into a scene, hot on the trail of our leading man and ready to beat him to a bloody pulp. Which she did quite believably on more than one occasion (take notes, Angelina Jolie in Salt). Jessica Biel was sweet enough, but was ultimately a rather uninspired choice as the mysterious ‘dream woman’. Bryan Cranston appears to have a gift for villainy, and Bill Nighy is utterly wasted on an unfortunate bit of speechifying.Full review available here.
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