Good Year for Russell Crowe?

Provence feelgood movie "A Good Year" has been released, to decidely mixed reviews.  A few nuggets:

• "Crowe's turn at comedy in his new movie has been panned."
• "Crowe himself seems to want to forego any romanticism - he has a goofy hair-parting, wears unappealing outfits and hums, haws and sputters in search of some humour. A Good Year is at times downright clumsy"

I meanly quote China Daily in full:

"The only real dud, though, was Ridley Scott's A Good Year, adapted from Peter Mayle's A Year In Provence, in which City whizkid Max inherits a crumbling French chateau. The first 20 minutes are wonderful, thanks to a flashback to Albert Finney as Max's uncle, former owner of the chateau.

Equally good are early London scenes with Russell Crowe as the obnoxious Max. Once the film hits France, the rot sets in faster than it attacks the chateau's vines. A miscast Crowe shows little knack for comedy, smirking his way through scene after scene filled with clich¨¦s about France. Sadly, a Good Year barely qualifies as plonk."

Here's a link to the Good Year trailer.

Comments

[Mdx]

Why would they name a film after a TIRE?? Sure to FLOP!