Stuck in Middle Earth

[Eruwen]

I guess you could look at in that way. Here is the whole article by this critic. Maybe it will explain it a little more.<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>WRITER-director-star Ed Burns abandons romantic comedy with mixed results in "Ash Wednesday," an ambitious, guilt-suffused melodrama crippled by poor casting.<P>The problems start with Burns, whose unvarying laid-back style as an actor doesn't fit the tortured character of Francis, a bartender in the pre-gentrified Hell's Kitchen of 1983.<P>A former tough guy, Francis has been walking the straight and narrow since his younger brother Sean (Elijah Wood) was supposedly killed trying to stop a hit on Francis.<P>But now Sean has been spotted in the neighborhood - and Francis has been getting a little too friendly with Grace (Rosario Dawson), who thinks she's Sean's widow.<P>Dawson is the best thing here, and Malachy McCourt, James Handy and Oliver Platt deliver nice cameos as a gang boss, a priest in cahoots with Francis and a hit man.<P>But Wood, who sounds like he's been vacationing in Middle Earth, is simply ludicrous as Sean.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>