It's in the one extended
sequence with Moore that the film
works best as a cohesive
package, in which Ford restrains himself and lets Firth and Moore create a potently passionate portrait of long - term friendship, with all the unspoken history, tender affection, and the not - so - paradoxical simmering bitterness that can sometimes go along with that... particularly when one friend may want something different out of the relationship than the other does.