After all, his debut feature, Once Were Warriors, was a singularly powerful and memorable effort connecting guilt, machismo, and spousal abuse.
When Lee Tamahori made his first bad motion picture, Mulholland Falls, I was genuinely surprised and disheartened. Alas, not even Freeman's superior performance can save Along Came a Spider from that recurring motion picture infection: the insultingly idiotic screenplay. This mystery/thriller manages to sink under the weight of its own preposterousness despite the best efforts of the always-effective Morgan Freeman to stave off disaster. So, although there are some things to praise about Lee Tamahori's overwrought adaptation of James Patterson's novel, Along Came a Spider, they aren't immediately obvious. Here's one important rule about film criticism and review writing: the harder you have to think to find something noteworthy or laudable about a motion picture, the less likely it is to get a recommendation.
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