basically this be a pale shadow of high fidelity and which be a witty and wonderfully act film with several truly win character turn . watch the detective have none of that . the premise of a video store geek sweep off his foot by a quirky mystery woman be a good one but be never fully or adequately explored and thanks to a very weak script and the miscasting of the lead and not to mention the lack of any real visual story tell style . i mean and this film be center around movie and yet be itself incredibly uncinematic . that a major fail right there . but the main problem be we simply do not care about the main character because the script and the actor ( murphy and liu ) fail to make them true or sympathetic in any real way . so the film just become a series of episode involve two people who seem and well and not terribly interest . oh and yeah and another thing represent for a romantic comedy . it not funny . and the romance isn not terribly romantic and either . so avoid it . even at it 90 something minute run time it just not worth sit through .