'Diana' the movie: Not bad, not good.

'You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gives of herself. But they are not saints,'' said actor Edward James Olmos.

Well, during no point in Hillary Clinton's lifetime has she ever been considered a saint. Princess Diana, however, even before her much-publicized charity endeavors, was considered some sort of otherworldly saint-like celebrity phenomenon. She was famous for being famous on the grandest scale. (So powerful was her impact before she married Prince Charles that many people referred to her as "Lady Di'' forever.) She initially tapped into the beautiful fairy tale of a "commoner'' being lifted to royalty by a (reasonably) attractive prince. Although Diana wasn't really a commoner at all, just very young and totally unsuited for The Life.

On Friday, director Oliver Hirschbiegel's controversial feature film "Diana'' opened in the United States. It was slaughtered in Britain, with calls for the heads of Oliver and star Naomi Watts -- lese-majeste -- to the Tower! (By now we'll know what America's reviewers think.)

The movie premiered at the SVA Theater in Manhattan, sponsored by The Cinema Society. It does not deserve what British critics gave it. (The director himself remarked before the screening, "Forget everything...