Enduring Love (2004)

I've not read the Ian McEwen novel on which this film was based but can't help thinking that the story probably worked better on the printed page than on the screen.  Daniel Craig and Samantha Morton's romantic picnic is interrupted by a ballooning accident in which a man is killed despite Craig and other bystanders attempting to help.  So far so good, but it is rather downhill from there.  Craig obsesses as to whether he could have done more and he is also being stalked by Rhys Ifans, one of the bystanders, who feels their experience has brought them together in an implicitly romantic way.  Ifans is great at playing goofy but I do not buy him as a psychopath.  Morton's role seems underwritten.  Craig emotes well enough (and parenthetically I do have real trouble picturing him as the next James Bond) but I just didn't get the measure of his character here.  A story that should have been involving just seemed very flat to this viewer and that can only be the fault of the script and/or director.