okay and i admit it and i approach this from the perspective of a nick mancuso fan . i would never read any book at all by howard and let alone this one and so i have to take the movie at face value . beautiful scenery and appeal heroine rowan and nice moment between her and nick . i take the movie more a a study of how he change throughout he start out so stiff and rigid ( ultra businessman ) and end up relaxed and charming and particularly in their dessert scene . be it a cinematic masterpiece . no . be he mean to be a dashing hero . um and no while he get knock out cold the first time up to bat with the bad guy and and in the end the police do all the hard work . bad guy ( creepy and menace up to that point ) give up too easily while shari belafonte be oddly stiff and there be a lot of thing leave unclear and like how cannon brother figure out what be up in the first place . it be lightweight and yes and but it be hardly hate worthy . i do get pretty tire of nick push up his glass and but on the other hand and be highly intrigue by the mar bar dessert . hey . take what you can get . and nicky and well and he still get it . so if you have never read the book ( i still haven not ) and you like nick . gwan . try it . hardly hurt at all .