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Matthew Goode (from "Match Point") plays Heck, a handsome stockbroker about to marry beautiful Rachel (Coyote Ugly's Piper Perabo).

At this perfect couples' perfect wedding, Rachel just happens to lock eyes with Luce (The Brothers Grimm's Lena Headey), a gay florist who works nearby.

They fall madly in love at first sight and all bets are off.

Totally unbelievable and very boring despite some good acting from a good cast.

Needed a better director.

I rank it amongst the worst 10 films I have ever seen.

This is a lavish (by TV standards) production from Italy starring Sophia (Sofia) Loren who is still as elegant and beautiful as she ever was (in most scenes, anyway).

It's a story of overpowering love and is brilliantly conceived and produced.

The story opens at the turn of the last century when Princess Sophia and her prince visit an orphanage to adopt a little girl to honour a pledge made to the Virgin Mary when their baby was sick.

The Prince is a waster but Loren makes pasta for export to the Americas and keeps the family of 10 in spending money.

The adopted girl turns out to be very smart and clever except that she falls in love with one of her adoptive brothers.

When Sophia mortgages her business so the Prince can become a banker they lose everything and the Prince attempts suicide.

In the end it is the orphan who replaces her adoptive mother but she has married one of the workers in the factory and given up her true love.

This is a movie I really looked forward to seeing but it turned out to be a great disappointment and I switched it off with half an hour to go.

Although the action scenes were brilliantly executed and presented, I found the many flash-backs to Alexander's childhood were extremely boring and that they made the story hard to follow.

I looked forward to action on a grand scale and that part didn't disappoint me. However, the flash-backs made the movie disjointed and ruined the illusion for me.

A great story ruined by the director.