I rented this clunker on the basis of the cast (including Colin Farrell, Sissy Spacek and Robin Wright Penn), and it should be noted that they do indeed give game performances with what they have to work with. But yikes, it's bad. So very bad. And the blame most go to the novelist Michael Cunningham (who wrote the screenplay based on his own novel) and the director Michael Mayer. The structure features way too many montages, and it seems to constantly zip ahead without ever giving us much time to connect with the characters or their new situations. Maybe the book was good - but the movie is so bad I think it merits lawsuits against Mayer and Cunningham. Or we should at least be afforded the opportunity to throw rotten vegetables at them for wasting the time of viewers and the talents of actors.
Posted by armand at December 3, 2004 10:15 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Movies