The film is great entertainment because the film refrains from sex and promotes fine values-including family values, reconciliation, dealing with bereavement and doing good to make a better world.
The casting of these four was perfect (thank you Lopez for insisting on Caviezel!). Yet despite those faults the film sails through as fine entertainment because of fine believable performances from Caviezel, Lopez, Sonia Braga, and Shirley Knight. The film jumps to situations without a build up-Catch appears on a life saving situation, seemingly out of nowhere two beers appear on Catch's table in the restaurant, without him ordering the second no mention is made of why Catch chose this name etc. It is quite different from the typical Hollywood camera-work. An intense viewing of the film affords the viewer to appreciate the opening shots, the alley shots, and the corridor shots that evoke feelings. This again is a fault of the Director and editor, not the cameraman who was one of the finest in his business (Kieslowski's "Dekalog" and "Three Colors-Red"). Again some comments on the photography infer the late cinematographer Piotr Sobocinsky has done a shoddy job because obvious Toronto landmarks appear in a film set in Chicago. For instance, Jennifer Lopez was nominated for a "Razzie" award but the film shows a very fine effort from the lady. It's a film with a lot of misplaced evaluations. I stumbled on this film-because there was nothing obvious that made it look like a film worth your time.
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