Based on a 1921 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
A man's body -- with the exception of his brain -- is born old and suffers a rejuvenation process throughout his life.
Viewing the excruciating 2 hours and 40 minutes of this film was a real chore. There is no redeeming quality aside from production accessories such as make-up, sets, epoch reconstitution, etc. I haven't read Fitzgerald's story but from what people are saying there is a major difference in that in it the protagonist's brain is included in his "curse". This might be one of the reasons the film is so bad, but the fact is that it is no different from other recent Hollywood productions in both the cliché-ridden script and the TV-commercial directorial style, which are apparently meant to numb its audience into catatonia. The character's condition remains almost irrelevant through large portions of the film -- we watch his love affair in a Russian hotel in full detail, and said condition isn't brought to bear once. The common saying that "if one could get younger one could profit from both experience and physical capacity" doesn't enter into the film's equation once. It would probably take another 2 hours to include it without sacrificing the sappy love story.
Rating: 25
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