Starts out as a 10, ends up as a 1!

howesy

I got to see this while I was over in Cannes, and have to say I have mixed feelings about it. I'm a big fan of Ed Norton, and every single actor held there own, with especially strong performances by David Morse and the lovely Evan Rachel Wood. It starts off with some fantastic cinematography and some moving if not somewhat direction-less scenes and for the first 45 minutes I found myself engrossed in everything about the movie. However after an hour or so the plot takes a sharp change and from here everything falls apart. What should have taken the film up another notch ends up slowing the pace right down until it almost passes out from fatigue. What could have been summed up in about two scenes takes nearly an hour to play out and by this time you couldn't really care less what happens. A great start but the only word I can think off to describe the ending rhymes with rock.

score 5/10

howesy 22 May 2005

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