Ripple Effect

I don't think it was a bad film at all.

I don't usually like to comment on films, I think it's all kind of silly. I like to see the film and make up my own mind.

I just read "imizrahi2002" comment and I don't know why some people are so angry over a film. There seems to be a lot of upset people on IMDb. I guess "imizrahi2002" was in reaction to "jotix100" over glowing review. Dunno....

It's true the film is no Gone With the Wind or anything, but the film does have it charms.

I thought it was a nice simple emotional film with a good heart.

A terribly tedious film equipped with a top line cast that still couldn't save this film.

Terribly unbelievable story line, unconvincing characters and the lead character who is also the film producer and director should serve as warning to avoid.

A film self published as this one is for a good reason and indicator the studios rejected it the way antibodies attack and eliminate microbes from invading the body and the studios did their best to keep this film from impeding cinematic audience.

A tire sales pamphlet is more interesting and a better use of your time.

The only reason I picked this up was Forrest Whitaker. I've seen several of his straight-to-DVD items and they're usually interesting to very good.

I don't know if I want to know the background of this, 'cause I probably would get angrier. I would have to assume the director, writer and star (one guy) is Mr. Whittaker's and Ms. Driver's celestial guru, or some nonsense like that.

It doesn't help that the "hero" starts out as an arrogant douche who insists on calling his wife and child "beybee" 60 times in the first 1/2 hour. All that was missing was the gold chain around his neck.

So this guy runs his business into the ground, despite the fact that everyone around him loves him. They really love him. Adore him. It helps that he's also the writer telling his actors to love him. I don't.

Then, at his breaking point, he has to right a wrong he did years ago. That's holding him back, although it's unrelated to the present events.

(I should say it was entertaining to hear Ms. Driver fall into various accents throughout the film.)

Then another 40 minutes of blahblahblah and we're done.

Many other reviewers were basically calling this "intellectual" Sure. They just forgot the word "claptrap".

At least the star/director/writer is consistent. A consistently bad actor, writer, and director.

A bit shocked by the very negative review at the beginning. This is a very thoughtful, insightful movie. It feels very Buddhist in the sense that you cannot freeze any event in life and say whether or not it is a good or bad thing. Life exists in flow and bad turns to good and the reverse is also true. Those who are most free in life are those that let the past be what it was and choose to use it as a series of opportunities to learn how to live more deeply. There is a powerful intersection of two lives at the beginning of the film that shatters two lives in that moment. But both people use the event differently and when the opportunity is created to reconnect their lives, how each of them deal with it comes to light. "There is nothing evil but that thinking makes it so" all life is interpretation of events that are just events.

What great plot to developing a fine movie but a miscasting put the whole thing running away, firstly the picture loose time on endless family matters, the main actor didn't delivery properly and the Forest Whitaker wasn't enough plausive as the victim, Minnie Driver sexy than never didn't look the right choice to the role, anyway the all ellements are disagreement with the concept predetermined and the results are predicable under such condition, but something could be takes from this movies, Minnie singing, the old saying told by the main character and finally the message of forgiveness is high point, it should be better!!!

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First watch: 2018 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 6.5