by pinback » Fri Jun 25, 2004 10:42 pm
See, this is the kind of movie I can't take. Pretty well acted, decently written, but not too much style, and stuff just... it just HAPPENS. The movie starts, some things happen, and then the movie ends. We've been told a story, but we haven't been affected viscerally, and we haven't really learned anything about life except, "Damn, everyone in this movie is fucked up."
I'd hesitate to call it "boring", but, it pretty much is. Hiding under the big bright marquee displaying such names as Sean Penn, Clint Eastwood, Tim Robbins, Morpheus, and Oscar Award is a pretty plain ol' murder mystery, with psychological (but uninteresting) undertones.
But I knew it'd be like that, so I can't give it a purely negative review, because it did just what I thought, and it was my fault for renting it.
**1/2.
See, this is the kind of movie I can't take. Pretty well acted, decently written, but not too much style, and stuff just... it just HAPPENS. The movie starts, some things happen, and then the movie ends. We've been told a story, but we haven't been affected viscerally, and we haven't really learned anything about life except, "Damn, everyone in this movie is fucked up."
I'd hesitate to call it "boring", but, it pretty much is. Hiding under the big bright marquee displaying such names as Sean Penn, Clint Eastwood, Tim Robbins, Morpheus, and Oscar Award is a pretty plain ol' murder mystery, with psychological (but uninteresting) undertones.
But I knew it'd be like that, so I can't give it a purely negative review, because it did just what I thought, and it was my fault for renting it.
**1/2.