How, given the cast, the fantastic combination of Jean Reno, the man who gave us Big Blue and redefined french cool, and Juliette Binoche, who has the cutest nose in cinema and is like a a dandelion blown away in the wind, how could this not be fantastic? Regrettably Jet Lag is just that: a conflict of taste and styles that never gels.
There is some spark but no wit, and rom-com without wit is like champagne without the bubbles, effective but no fun.
The chemistry is off-kilter and deliberately so, but too much so in the first 40 minutes - at no point were we convinced that circumstances, a travel strike, would be enough to throw these two mismatched souls together.
The last third is better, with Jean Reno having the best moment in the film without Juliette Binoche...
All in all it is watchable, but it is not enjoyable: the humour is too dry from this, and the set up too worked through, but most of all, you just don't buy it the way you would want too...
A great shame.
There is some spark but no wit, and rom-com without wit is like champagne without the bubbles, effective but no fun.
The chemistry is off-kilter and deliberately so, but too much so in the first 40 minutes - at no point were we convinced that circumstances, a travel strike, would be enough to throw these two mismatched souls together.
The last third is better, with Jean Reno having the best moment in the film without Juliette Binoche...
All in all it is watchable, but it is not enjoyable: the humour is too dry from this, and the set up too worked through, but most of all, you just don't buy it the way you would want too...
A great shame.