After the Whin Sill, the return to ground level comes as an anticlimax.

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And when he finally did say something, it was an anticlimax, though it was a perfectly good speech about Buddhism and happiness.

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Though the matches themselves, with their crude narrative frameworks and stereotypes, may be something of an anticlimax, the film unearths the tough and complex life experiences they distill.

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"After the Tour there's a sense of anticlimax, " Millar said.

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Whatever envy his fast climb had stirred in the hearts of others, to hear Grisha Arsenyev talk one might guess that immigrating had turned out to be the great anticlimax of his life.

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Never mind that in some opinions the whole rigmarole was a milling anticlimax to the visit of wine critic Robert Parker, the One Voice That Matters, whose tour through a few days earlier was the subject of its own fervid rumor mill.

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Even if the climax feels fantastical (well suited to the horror-friendly talents of the director, Stuart Gordon), you should stay for the battered irony of the anticlimax, which finds our hero settling down, once again, to the rigors of a regular life.

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The actual launch of the first iPad in April 2010 was something of an anticlimax compared to the hype before it but what is also interesting is that the launch if the iPad seems to coincide with a lift for Amazon.

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It may just be anticlimax.

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