If you find yourself in the unenviable position of having just a week to live then going to see this shouldn't be high up your list of priorities.

TV reporter Lanie Kerrigan (Jolie) is the self-satisfied, ego-centric career girl who has to reassess her very being when she gets news of her impending fate.

Homeless street seer Prophet Jack (Shalhoub) told her that the Seattle Sea Hawks would win 19-13 (they do), it's going to hail (it does) and she's going to die.

So far Lanie has painfully boasted of her idyllic lifestyle as a hack on a pseudo-GMTV operation - ie the last place you look for coverage of the weightier topics of the day.

Now, she has to re-evaluate her relationship with her baseball star fiance and her widowed dad and sister, who she's never really spoken to.

All the while, she's finding herself attracted to her erstwhile nemesis Pete, the only cameraman on the station "who can film her so she looks like a natural blonde".

In the way of these things, they bond over a game of Scrabble, spend an idyllic day out with single dad Pete's son and inevitably get jiggy between the sheets.

Oscillating between the mildly amusing and downright silly, this degenerates into a cloying mess with the denouement so rushed you'll miss it if you blink.

Subtlety isn't the Tomb Raider star's greatest strength, which suits the over-the-top career tottie line just fine but isn't so clever where emotional nuance is required.

Truth to tell, the veteran of Gone In 60 Seconds doesn't really do drama, which is a bit of a drawback if you're an actress.

For a movie that pinches the central premise of modern horror classic The Ring, the biggest shock about this is that it got made at all.

Tim Evans