Review – Great Expectations

Wow, is this ever a boring movie. It’s got too much art-house pretense to function well as a romance, and it has too much romance to function well as anything else. Gwenyth Paltrow does an acceptable job as the elusive love interest of our protagonist, a starving artist played by Ethan Hawke. Robert DeNiro and Anne Bancroft vaguely figure in here as well. If the script had been a little better, it might have overcome the overbearing art direction. Sadly, the pace was lethargic and much of the dialogue ham-handed at best. An E for effort, but not much more. See if desperate