| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Dec 17, 2005

| Original Score: D | Dec 17, 2005

The failure is with a script as ungainly as it is and an oversimplified conception of American-Italian and black cultures.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 2, 2005

This thing is as formulaically bland as the rest of its Tinseltown kind.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 2, 2005

Usher, who has a squinty charm, is forced to display an infinite polite chivalry that would have shamed Sidney Poitier.

| Original Score: C | Nov 30, 2005

Played mostly as a drama but utterly devoid of tension, the film mainly comes across as recycled.

Full Review | Nov 29, 2005

[A] one-dimensional romantic comedy that ... feels like an old-fashioned vehicle picture, the kind the big movie studios used to make in the 1930's and 40's just to bring in the fans of a particular actor or actress.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 28, 2005

... pic is never too insulting to the viewer, and works up a fair amount of goodwill by the good graces of Usher's Will Smithian charisma and an extremely attractive filmmaking package ...

| Nov 28, 2005

Usher's fans will enjoy his frequent wardrobe changes and a couple of scenes where he takes off his shirt, but it's hard to imagine how anyone who doesn't kiss his poster goodnight could get his or her money's worth from this film.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 28, 2005

The jokes are worse ...

Full Review | Original Score: .5/4 | Nov 28, 2005

Not even likable leading man Usher can save this muddled mob comedy from a quick route to video shelves.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 28, 2005

A jumble of genres including mob melodrama, bodyguard romance and interracial love story, none of which is handled in a remotely satisfying manner.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Nov 25, 2005

The movie pitches itself as a modern-day Romeo and Juliet, but its execution is so lazy and inept that if the lovers were to die horribly it would come more as relief than tragedy.

Full Review | Nov 23, 2005

Mix, however, never once veers from its main mission. That would be superstar as product placement.

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Nov 23, 2005