Mini-Review: I'm still an adult this movie is still shit...there is more of everything and less of everything all at once. It's amazing in the worst possible way.

Mini-Review: So I was wrong in one respect-- it's never unintentionally funny or even intentionally (I'm kind of sad about both), but it was certainly buoyed by great supporting work from Jason Patric and Alec Baldwin who thoroughly humanize under written characters. Diaz, somehow, despite her forcefulness remains the film's weak link. If you've got an Achilles heel for anything even tangentially related to "The Notebook" (this film shares that film's director) then this film is probably for you.

Mini-Review: Actually manages to be pretty engaging at times, something the first movie never was, but there are some moments that are genuinely bereft of any sort of tension (Vatican Library when airlocked, anyone) and then they end in such a way that they beg to be punctuated by some tenuous and nervous audience laughter. It's an odd choice and a mistake a movie you know is going to be mediocre can't afford to make. Ayelet Zurer, on the other hand, is a fucking pleasure to look at. I'd totally pee in her.