I f'n hated this film

With an IMBD rating of 8 I was expecting quality, but really this is a sentimental b movie with with excellent actors under what has to be some of the worst scripting and direction I've seen in a long time. 20 years in the making?!?! Even my lady-friend, who's not picky as I am, was hiding under a cushion by the end of 10 minutes.

It's not like there isn't a good story but the execution is just awful. At least the central character didn't have to do all that cringey smiling and laughing and falling-in-love-with-burt like the other poor sods; and it's not like they were bad actors.

Surprisingly it wouldn't have done me any good at all to visit Rotten-tomatoes, the worlds slowest website, for a more reliable rating: the critics, blast them, gave it an 80% rating?!?!? Perhaps I've had a sentiment bypass, because sentimental nonsense was all there was to be found in this terrible movie. The only indication of something dodgy going on is the film's low takings.

My own preference is talky films for human relations and I can't be bothered with action movies but in this film all that oppotunity was converted in to one awful moment after another, and some very awkward acting due to some dire direction, and it was only one action scene at the beginning that was any good. The race against the young scamps was actually quite excellent; I could have done with more of that but when it came to the the same scallywags giving Burt some money to help him on his way I ended up cringing at what should have been a good moment if handled by a competent script and decent direction. Yet the final action scenes of his race for 200mph had no sense of speed or excitement.

What a waste of a £1 rental.