The Bucket List (12a)

Feb 15 2008 By Graham Young

IF, as expected, Daniel Day-Lewis wins his second best actor Oscar at the 80th Academy Awards on Sunday week, he'll join Fredric March, Spencer Tracy, Gary Cooper, Marlon Brando, Dustin Hoffman and Tom Hanks as the only actors to have achieved the feat twice.

Oh, and Jack Nicholson - which is why his latest film is a relative disappointment considering his career includes a best supporting actor win and a record nine more nominations.

In only his second film in half a decade, after last year's Best Picture winner The Departed, 70-year-old Jack adds on another ten years to play cancer sufferer Edward Cole.

He runs the hospital where Morgan Freeman's Carter Chambers has also been admitted with cancer.

The pair are then able to fight their respective conditions for long enough to share some 'once in a lifetime' adventures which never really convince beyond their buddy-buddy purpose.

Written by little known Justin Zackham, The Bucket List is directed by Rob Reiner whose best films - When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men, Misery and Spinal Tap - are now well behind him.

The 96-minute film's predictable plot is a cake walk for the two stars whose famous voices almost cancel each other out.

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