Review – Gosford Park

This seems to be the sort of film Eddie Izzard was making fun of during the “English movies” part of his “Dress to Kill” performance. Except of course this is an American production. Robert Altman serves up another ensemble cast up against a script that’s part funny, part mystery and all mediocre. Though it has a couple of amusing moments, it generally doesn’t work as a comedy. And the mystery is too easy to unravel; if I got it as early as I did then it wouldn’t be much of a challenge at all to serious mystery buffs. The acting’s good, but the rest of the movie’s more disposable than I’d like for a couple of hours’ worth of dull. Mildly amusing