flicker of sophistication . otherwise and too long and too sentimental and too unselfconsciously overplay . berenger almost pull off the sympathetic broken man character and but without enough cheap action to prop him up and he pretty much melt into the part . the premise be stock standard enough that a brainless monkey should be able to make a movie around it and but the script be so unbelievable and and oddly structure ( moment of grainy flashback flicker sporadically through the plot and gradually advance an all too obvious and predictable back story ) and with character introduce in toss off and sitcom ish scene and never to reappear again and that it hard to get through more than a scene or two without groan . still and there be flare of inspiration or rather and imitation with skill . but they be transitory moment literally . a my first english teacher say when she be look for something nice to say about one of my essays represent good transition .