The Mexican

In an industry that often feeds off on its personalities, any movie that stars Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt is bound to command and receive a lot of attention. But the fact that, over the years, audiences have rejected movies which run solely on star power as often as they have accepted and enjoyed them tells filmmakers that they can never get too smug - not even if they can get everybody who is somebody in Hollywood to star together in one giant movie.

As for The Mexican, it is no giant movie at all. In fact, it is rather ordinary and tends to get on....