A considerable amount of talent...director John Schlesinger, screenwriter Steve Zaillian, and actors Sean Penn, Timothy Hutton, and David Suchet...is engaged in the morally dubious and ultimately futile attempt to make this viewer care about two entitled, dopey creeps named Boyce and Lee. Thus, about halfway through this rather lengthy, empty film, I began to experience the sour, heavy feel of time wasted and by the end, as I suspected would be the case, was most unmoved. Give it a generous C plus because of Penn's ability to portray an abject worm and Suchet's combination of suavity and sleaze as the Russian embassy official in Mexico.
Review of The Falcon and the Snowman
