Unintentionally Funny (Spoilers)
Going by the reviews on Metacritic I was prepared for this film to be average, maybe po-faced and obvious. I didn't expect so many unintended laughs, clearly the result of a disastrous production process. Here are some things that I found funny:
1) The wife character is an internationally successful shoe designer.
2) We're supposed to believe that Neeson knows Bill Gates.
3) The incomprehensible plotting. Why is Neeson suddenly moody and giving away his wife's clothes? In another scene Banderas is storming away from a meeting with Neeson, yelling into a phone, knocking over tables. The next scene he's wistfully describing to Neeson that he got a call from his lover yesterday. At no point does Neeson say, "Yes, I was here when you got it and saw you act mental."
4) The fact that the lover's name is Ralph, made funnier by Neeson muttering the name several times and at one point confusing a work underling into thinking that he should start using the name himself.
5) Neeson's sudden left-field outburst about badgers on his lawn and how he wants to kill the bastards.
6) The heavy handed hint that there's more than one Ralph, just after Neeson has confronted a man named Ralph who is clearly not the guilty one (Neeson to Secretary: Get me Joy. Secretary: We have two Joys working here, Peter).
7) The bizarre emails sent by Ralph that make zero sense. After getting an email that basically says their affair is over, he sends one back saying he has to see her again. Then adds, "Your email made me very happy".
8) The daughter looks young, well dressed, attractive and intelligent. Her boyfriend appears to be a simpleton in his forties, with no dress sense and greasy hair. No reason is given for this.
9) The protracted BS techno speak used to justify finding someone's home address using their email address ("we'll have to hope the server's badly configured but ..." knowing smile "it usually is").
10) Banderas puts on a business suit and walks about five miles (all the time followed by Neeson) only to sit down in a café and play chess on his own.
11) Banderas describes himself as a cosmopolitan, interested in poetry and therefore feet.
12) Banderas is entranced, gobsmacked, hypnotised by a woman's shoes (see point 11). When we see the shoes they look perfectly ordinary.
13) Neeson says he is particularly revolted by Banderas' hands, then spits out with a shudder, "pink hands". This is directly after he has told his daughter, without providing any context at all, as if its the most natural thing in the world that he and his wife's lover play chess every day.
14) Neeson shouting like King Lear into the storm: "Gucci loafers"
15) Neeson can't bring himself to murder Banderas after hearing Banderas deliver an emotional monologue about tortoises while dressed in overalls ("sentimental sod", he rages).
16) Banderas lives in five star hotels, wears great-looking suits and eats in expensive restaurants. At the end we find out he works as a hospital porter.