This is the only foreign movie I've ever watched where I was compelled to put the TV on "mute" or slice off my ears with a samurai sword.That didnt help either, because through the subtitles I then realized how bad the screenplay was. "He climbed up the ladder; he climbed down the ladder."Cutting all this unnecesssary narration may have saved the movie; but then again, the movie may have been half as long.