imagine pull back the mask of a lethal assassin and find barbara cartland there . that what happen with this film . the opening show promise and but soon it drop all pretense of be a thriller ( or even an imaginative love story ) and the only reason they make this story become abundantly clear represent to fill a gap in their female view market by create yet another re hash of amis understood and brood bad boy ( andrei ) meet innocent and whimsical beauty ( paula ) . rather than waste any time in create an original premise and the filmmaker go straight for the money shot represent the bad boy be tame by say whimsical beauty . thence follow a string of insincere and heavily clichéd love scene sprinkle with pseudo philosophical or poetic fluff . andrei admission of be ( eponymously ) a poet be lever in to round out the perceived quality a byronic hero should have but even when be tell in heavy and underlined writing who and what he be and it still difficult to believe it or care . for a byronic hero or antihero to work and the story need subtlety and style and innovation all of which be utterly absent here . this be not a modern day phantom of the opera and it just what happen when a weak and rather silly woman ( with loose knicker elastic ) date a bad man and who and after meet her and seem as dangerous a bunny slipper . the performance might have save this film and have they be any good represent the female lead be preoccupy with look sexy and otherworldly and no matter how force or ridiculous while and poor dougray scott appear to have be drug a he shamble through his part . this be not his best work . the glimmer of interest be bring by jürgen prochnow a vashon and and andrew lee potts a the young photographer or brother . a good movie would have off the sister and keep the brother instead .