The tremendous emotional build at the end of this drama of a man looking for the better part of himself, coupled with a great Tom Cruise speech, will send you off feeling great. And that's fine and dandy. But it shouldn't obscure the fact that this is an unnecessarily long film with too little incident for its length, and that not all of director Crowe's dialogue is of the same quality as his final scenes. That said, Cruise, Renée Zellweger and especially Cuba Gooding Jr give generously of themselves in a bid to grip you to the story of a sports agent who finds himself jobless, friendless and with but a single client after he tells colleagues the unpalatable truth about their profession. Bonnie Hunt, as Zellweger's snoopy sister, and Regina King, as Gooding's wife, are also excellent in a fine ensemble cast that includes a delightfully un-cute Jonathan Lipnicki, who, as widow Zellweger's little son, will win as many hearts as the stars.

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