The Book Was Panned...

...and I can see why. So much potential unfulfilled.

The film was choppy. Jumped around with little cohesiveness. It was so all over the map I could barely tell just what "mystery" we were supposed to be following.

Some of the dialogue was plain old velveeta. "A boy without a father needs to be taught it's okay to cry.....how about those Red Sox" Good Grief.

I enjoyed Daniel Sunjata (that man so needs to lead a GOOD show or movie). But his "Mr Lover Man" persona was just kind of weird. On the one hand, he seemed like just a really nice guy. He didn't seem to pay any more attention to one woman than any other. That is, he didn't seem to try and "sweet talk" anyone into doing anything. (Well, except maybe his grandmother). Yet the way he had Sykes jumping and doing his bidding in Tennessee was plain creepy. So how and why he had all these women willing to do what he wants just wasn't understandable. Particularly, since the only person he seemed to have any real affection for, other than his grandmother, seemed to be Jesse.

Yeah, he was good looking but so what. And from the hints, he was a "love 'em and leave 'em" type. But how did he get them in bed in the first place? I guess, my peeve is that we were supposed to believe a lot more about the character than we were shown.

And what was with the witchy grandmother? Eccentric grandmother I get, but the flashback they chose to use didn't make much sense. And it wasn't clear what influence her eccentricity had in his life. (Other than to slow him down when he needed to be somewhere else.) He was pretty straight laced.

Finally, I don't mind Andie McDowell, but she was particularly awful here. She was trying way too hard to be a b!tch. And she's never been able to do it convincingly.


“If they let Jack do it his way the show would be just 12” – snorgtees.com