Lasse Hallstrom directs neat, clever films, but the Shipping News found no love amongst critics and most of the public. It flopped and started Kevin Spacey's decline in movies till at last he found a good niche on House of Cards on Netflix. The film seemed to have no life; it was slow and quite boring.
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