starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Virginie Ledoyen, Robert Carlyle, Guillaume Canet, Tilda Swinton
Written by John Hodge
Directed by Danny Boyle

Is it time to throw Leo to the lions? The Beach, in which Leonardo DiCaprio plays a backpacker in Thailand who thinks he has found a map to paradise, is going to piss off a lot of people just because he's in it. After his unprecedented Titanic splash two years ago, DiCaprio took a vacation from acting, presumably to party, but in the media he was a…

Leonardo DiCaprio will be enough to draw a flood at the box office for on opening weekend for "The Beach." But it's questionable whether his performance or the movie's spectacular visuals will keep it afloat in the long run. The movie, based on Alex Garland's bestseller, comes across as a good-looking, watchable and altogether derivative mishmash of "Lord of the Flies," "Apocalypse Now" and, for the romantics, dollops of "Titanic" and "The Blue Lagoon."

DiCaprio's character, a self-absorbed '90s…