Review: Stranger Than Fiction
You've seen the trailers and the posters and never been tempted, but now you're curious. You fancy a night in with the missus and she doesn't fancy any of your hard action stuff*, so should you grab a copy of this DVD? Well, I'm a big fan of Emma Thompson , and the plotline sounded similar to an idea for a book I was considering writing a number of years ago (only my version had a helluva lot more gore as I was heavily into horror novels back then), so curiousity got the better of me and I ended up buying it as part of a 3 for £20 deal at HMV**. The plot boils down to one question: how would you live your life if you knew you were about to die? As with all romantic comedies, there's a little bit of everything from the humour of the main character screwing up his chances to the emotional discovery that his death was inevitable. No escape. No happy ending. Nada. The more observant amongst you will delight in pointing out the continuity errors, but if you're oth...