After the third or fourth time Harrison Ford's character said he wasn't going to do something dangerous to accommodate Rabbi Avram (Gene Wilder) and he actually did it I was done--which pains me a bit because I like both actors, but this was bad.
I'm not sure what the move was driving at: how a faithful rabbi stays true to his faith in the strange land of America? How a bank robber could be so taken by a rabbi he eschews his better sense? I don't know. It was a lot of Jewish humor with a lot of Yiddish words I didn't understand. It would be a big stretch to even call it amusing. It would be a stretch across the Grand Canyon to call it funny.
I'm not sure what the move was driving at: how a faithful rabbi stays true to his faith in the strange land of America? How a bank robber could be so taken by a rabbi he eschews his better sense? I don't know. It was a lot of Jewish humor with a lot of Yiddish words I didn't understand. It would be a big stretch to even call it amusing. It would be a stretch across the Grand Canyon to call it funny.