Lack of good storyline.

As Good As It Gets

A Major Disappointment

The acting in this movie is really good.

This is a Parker movie and a female justice warrior too....Hugh Grant was played as a 3rd rate B beta semi-male. Hugh's character and movie is played to help change society idea of male roles on this planet.Grant's character is weak, afraid and useless. Can't shoot, can't cut wood, can't protect himself or the people around him, can't earn a living in this movie (a lawyer they mentioned in pasting). Bad guy shows up he whines and hides and the real 'man' (Parker) goes for the rifle and protects. A Bear show up, he whines, cries and is a complete lose...until Parker shows up and saves him. At the Rodeo he's the bulls ass and again, Parker is the head bull. This women movie shows how far women are ahead of men in all departments of human development...its shocking.

Once there a hundred reviews of a film, I usually don't add my own. But I'm surprised at how low a rating this film gets from so many viewers. I liked it, and I think it's a pretty average romantic comedy. That's not to say it's a perfect film, however.The one problem I had was that the female lead character as a business woman seems too different than the same character as a wife and lover. There does seem to be a mismatch there.Some say the film is predictable. Yes, it is. Of course, I find most films are fairly predictable. What I liked was the cast. I generally like Hugh Grant, and this film was perfect for his rather deadpan sense of humor. I'm not a fan of Sarah Jessica Parker, but I thought she was good here, and I felt that the split personality of her character was the fault of the screen writers. This was also a good role of Sam Elliott; over the years, he has grown on me. And Mary Steenburgen, as Elliott's wife is quite good, and I think she is an underrated actress. For a while I grew tired of Wilford Brimley, but lately I've enjoyed him more.I won't go over the plot here; you can look that up on Google. But while the general plot is rather predictable, the fun is in how the characters get from the beginning of the story to the ending. It held my attention fairly well.

It is a classic RomCom, but it shows abused animals in many different ways. People make fun about torturing and killing animals in a sarcastic way during the romantic story.

Marc Lawrence wrote and directed this mostly unamusing comedy about a soon-to-be-divorced couple from the Big Apple (the wife a hotshot real estate broker so popular she rates a magazine cover, and the husband a cheating lawyer with a British accent who still loves his spouse) stumbling upon the murder of the wife's latest client and being placed in the Witness Protection Program. Transferred to small-town Wyoming, the couple shoot guns, ride horses, and fend off a bear while the audience waits for the New York hit-man to eventually track them down. Improbable, to say the least, but for the first hour not terrible. Sarah Jessica Parker dithers and fidgets too much, but she's a bright presence and gets her share of laughs (particularly when her penthouse is invaded and she makes a funny escape from her balcony). I'm not certain whether Hugh Grant is typecast or miscast here (perhaps he's a bit of both). Grant is such an inactive presence in the proceedings, and so unhappy on-screen, that he drains the fun from the movie's fish-out-of-water second-half; he doesn't even make much of an effort to click with Parker, and his big comic scenes (particularly the one with the bear) fall flat. Lawrence sets up the City Folks vs. Rural Folks clichés without any snap, and the redneck stereotypes (such as Wilford Brimley's disgruntled Republican) are bummers. A few laughs early on, but the picture doesn't stay the course. It should be relegated to Witless Protection Program. *1/2 from ****