The Lightkeepers

You can't hate this tale, set on Cape Cod in 1912. But Richard Dreyfuss overacts, the plot is predictable, and it all plays like an adaptation of a dog-eared romance novel.

Watching Richard Dreyfuss ham it up as a salty old sailor in the lifeless Lifetime-style period drama "The Lightkeepers" makes you wonder how much he was thinking about his old "Jaws" cast mate Robert Shaw while making the movie. If Dreyfuss was going for Captain Quint's whole fingernails-on-a-chalkboard effect, then he has succeeded, though his overacting may make you wish his ornery old-timer had ended up in the belly of a great white shark too. But you can't really hate "The Lightkeepers." You can only wish that writer-director Daniel Adams had invested the movie with equal measures of originality and quaintness … and maybe told Dreyfuss to tone down the whole sea captain thing. [...]

di Glenn Whipp, articolo completo (2209 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 7 maggio 2010