Random plot (Random Hearts (DVD))

Member Name: magpie

Product:	Random Hearts (DVD)
Date:	20/03/01 (51 review reads)
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Advantages: None

Disadvantages: Horrible boring random film

I should have known better - an aging 'Heart throb' and the miserable looking Kristina Scott Thingy wossname. However, the exciting looking trailer, the promise of a bit of hanky panky, and a plane crash, all made me think this film might be worth seeing. How wrong I was!

The premise is promising: two people meet, as their partners were killed in the same plane crash. Subsequently they unravel a web of conspiracy. Sounds gripping? It wasn't.

Obviously the deaths of their partners upsets the main protagonists - cue lots of anguished looks across rooms. The mystery develops when it is revealed that neither partner should have been on the plane. It emerges that these peoples partners were having an affair. However by this point in time you don't care at all - you'll wish that Kristina Scott thingy wossname and Harrison Ford had died instead. Obviously there was supposed to be sexual tension between these two, but it looked as if they had developed a bad case of indigestion. I really can't describe the full awfulness of this film - the script was the corniest I have ever heard. It was so worthy, predictable, depressing, and random. For no reason half way through the film Ford and Scott thingy-wossname jumped into bed together. Cue lots of 'I'll never you see again' 'I'm still in love with him/her' 'is this the start of something' and other similarly vomit inducing, random statements.

The soundtrack was also corny. Imagine lots of solo saxophone, with tinkly piano bits. Just like in the soap opera neighbours.

That this story is based on a book is maybe not suprising. As a book I could imagine it working, with lots of inner dialogue exploring the turmoil of these people. However the film just did not work. I don't know if it was the appauling script, the appauling direction, or the appauling acting which was worse - but if you possibly can, avoid this film.
It was AWFUL!

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