Review of Mr. Nice (2010) by Geoff S — 20 Feb 2011

Ok. Story was good to start with, so the cinema treatment would have to be dire to make it bad. Unfortunately, in trying to cram in so much we lose some of the more interesting sections, so it does tend to slow things up a bit.

Gone are the laundering travel agents and massage parlors in Thailand, and the cat and mouse japes that resulted in the trailing FBI agent being put into an IRA safehouse, and IRA suspect being holed up in a CIA house and, well.

., you get the picture. That clever but funny step too far that got him nicked has been bypassed, but the time is beefed out by an unnecessary back story which could have safely been told in exposition.

Also, how he won over inmates in prison to the chagrin of his captors is motored through. What starts as an entertaining true life story becomes just a ho hum story of smart arse smuggler continually avoiding capture, until he gets captured.

A good view but a wasted (hehe) opportunity.