Wild Target

The first 20-30 minutes of this film were exceptional, I literally was sitting there watching the movie thinking damn, how have I not heard of this movie before, it is amazing!  Did I just discover one of the industry's hidden gems?  But then I kept watching.  As high as I got in that first half hour is as low as I got by the film's end.  Strong cast - with Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, and Rupert Grint, and an interesting story could not keep this movie afloat, and that baffles me.  How a cute, funny, well-shot, endearing and entertaining film so rapidly disintegrated into being slow, boring, and entirely uninteresting is a marvel of modern filmmaking.  Did the entire crew switch over part way through production?  Was the script lost, and hastily re-written by the producer's cat?  Hmmm...