Tad

Stunning north African scenery cannot save this boring and self important film which drags terribly.

Ennervated and self-important drama featuring unlikable characters and a complete absence of humour. There is zero chemistry between performers and the film both lacks credibility or the capacity to entertain... Avoid.

utterly unfunny but nonetheless oddly watchable

Often boring. The plot is unlikely and unengaging.The pace is slow, the characters are extremely superficial, the script switches between lifeless dialogue and trite innuendo. There is little convincing sexual tension and the delight in wickedness that so animates other Hitchcock films is largely absent. The scenery is beautiful but this is not enough to make the film enjoyable.

There are occasionally excellent long investigative pieces, sometimes from outside the uk. However, most of the programmes are taken up with 1. ritualistic interviews in which guests are insulted, cut off and generally treated with contempt. 2. Exhausting over- analysis of current affairs from a uk perspective. Presenters enjoy grandstanding, plainly seeing themselves as not just journalists but moral arbitrators of immense importance. . Issues selected by program producers trace the items in The Guardian, a leftist paper.

Overlong and rarely funny or original, with little chemistry between character. Avoid.