Archive for November 6th, 2003

6 Days, 7 Nights DVD

How could spending two hours on a deserted beach with Harrison Ford turn out to be a bad thing? That’s the question I kept asking myself after sitting through the intolerable “6 Days, 7 Nights,” a film so derivative and cloying you wonder why the box office giant would even agree to tackle such drivel. “6 Days, 7 Nights” wastes much more than a decent performance by Ford as a grizzled South Seas cargo pilot who winds up playing Robinson Crusoe to Anne Heche’s “Girl Friday.” Michael Browning’s screenplay, a blender mix of several other better films, becomes one clunky moment after another, directed with sledgehammer precision by Ivan Reitman, who should know better. Read the rest of this entry »