Bonkers but not brilliant

Married and Love & Other Drugs.

She does a fine job playing an unravelling heroine who comes to the realisation that there are more important things in life than staring at the bottom of a bottle of booze.

Equally impressive is Sudeikis – an actor whose work I’ve always enjoyed. He’s as charming as ever, but Vigalondo gifts him a layered character who takes a few dark turns in a performance that gets a lot more out of Sudeikis’ talents than any number of Horrible Bosses movies.

Heading up the cast are Tim Blake Nelson (Garth) and Austin Stowell (Joel) as Oscar’s witty, straight-talking buddies and Dan Stevens (Tim), saddled with a thankless task as Gloria’s unforgiving boyfriend in the Brit’s weakest big screen outing yet.

There’s no escaping the fact that Vigalondo’s flick is weird – very weird. The up and down tone won’t be for everyone and on more than one occasion it feels like the director has fused about three different films together.

And critics of comic book movies’ death and destruction-packed final acts will bristle at the throwaway manner in which the likely loss of thousands of people in Seoul is dismissed in favour of Gloria’s thoughts and feelings.

Comparisons with the even more bonkers Being John Malkovich are unwarranted and the bleak final act sucks the life out of proceedings.

Originality in Hollywood has to be embraced, though, and Vigalondo and his cast take us on an off-the-wall journey that we won’t soon forget.