It's amazing how perspectives can change over time to further enhance a movie. I'm not sure how I would have felt about this movie back in 2002 but watching it in 2022 I had fun and it gave me some good laughs. I'm so used now to dredging through absolute dreck that this story was actually a breath of sweet clean air. Scott Bakula is a very charming lead and so an excellent pick to play a character that could have all too easily come off as irredeemable. The story is a little hokey but it's also cute and fun and it makes a nice break from the slickly smooth heartless pap I've seen lately full of fast talking, witlessly bantering ciphers. I'll give anything that's not misery porn a pass at the moment and this movie surprisingly exceeded my expectations. It tells a neat, efficient little story with some nice side characters thrown in for flavour without succumbing to bloat. It's worth a watch.
Review of Role of a Lifetime
