By EWAN McDONALD
(Herald rating: * * )
Brendan Fraser as Elliot, an office nerd who only has to turn up at work to send his co-workers scurrying. For three years he has dreamed of the lovely Alison (Frances O'Connor, Mansfield Park), who barely notices him.
Then he meets the devil with
a red dress on (Liz Hurley), who offers him the standard contract, seven wishes for his soul.
Elliot finds himself reincarnated as a Colombian drug lord, a basketball star, Abraham Lincoln and so on. After each one, of course, he's double-crossed.
Even when he asks to be made the world's most sensitive man. Alison loves him but is bored: "I want a life with a man who will ignore me and take me for granted and only pretend to be interested in me to get in my pants."
Running time: 93 mins
Rental: Now
