CriticalEric

If you like great theatre, which is more about great dramatic performances than about special effects and soundtracks, you'll have to appreciate this film, as it features what may be the greatest dramatic performances by Geena Davis and Tim Robbins to date, and brilliant work by Lois Smith and Jon Hamm that does not deserve to go unnoticed.

The very original writing delves into the human experience, into aging, and into the role technology will likely increasingly play in the human experience.

I have a feeling that this is one of those films that will go under-noticed and under-appreciated, but will some day receive a lot of attention for it's prophetic technological implications.

For anyone who has ever suffered a profound loss, this film may have special meaning, beyond the introspective insight that it's likely to inspire in any human being. The story is at times funny, curious, and also sad, without relying on cheap underinvested plot devices or well-timed musical themes to trigger emotional responses.

Hopefully some horrible mishap in Tokyo involving English-language-challenged Sony execs can be blamed for the release of this most hideous example of mega-packed consumer-product-placement and lamely poddy-humor that would probably bore even the most attentive 2-year-old audience. Never before have I seen a musical dedicated to the underlying human principle of consumerism, with an emphasis on the good hearty American values that apparently originate at the local Shopping Mall.

I want those two hours of my life back.

Sony Pictures employees with any shred of self-respect should quit now in disgrace. (Even WBFA and Disney have never sunk THIS low.)

I hope I'm not too late- I hope you haven't already rented this-

This movie was painful to watch. It goes on my list of the worst 20 films I've ever seen. Childishly bad writing, painfully bad acting by Chad Lowe and others, and a horrible waste of Swank. I was embarrassed for some of the good new talents in this movie that had to work with such horrible writing.

Some of the visuals, the locations, the framing of the scenes were actually very enjoyable- If I'm too late and you've already rented this, watch it on MUTE.