Harrison Ford has always been one of my favorite actors, but lately he's made some rather disappointing career moves. Six Days, Seven Nights was a horrible misfire, and even Air Force One was an overblown action film. Add Random Hearts to the bad choice list.

In this film, Ford plays an internal affairs detective (he was much better as a police officer in the far superior The Devil's Own) who gets the disheartening news that his wife has died in a plane crash. Even more disheartening is the fact that she was with another man. Ford feels compelled to find out more about his wife's affair and it leads him to a congresswoman played by Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient, The Horse Whisperer), who wants to forget about her husband (who was having an affair with Ford's wife) and get on with her life. Naturally, there's an unexplained attraction between the two.

Random Hearts was directed by the overrated Sydney Pollack (Out of Africa, The Firm) who, ironically, seems a better actor (Death Becomes Her, Eyes Wide Shut) than director. I never once felt a connection between the two leads, nor did I care about their absurd situation. Ford plays the stoic cop well, but doesn't really get to shine, while Thomas came across as completely unbelievable. The only thing congressional about her was her hairstyle.

Dragging the film down even further are a string of unnecessary sub- plots, making the already too long running time seem much longer. Ford still remains one of my favorites, but this miscalculated film was another bad choice. In the end, Random Hearts is an uninteresting character study about obsession and betrayal, topics that Eyes Wide Shut dealt with in a much more innovative way.