mixed feelings.

triple8

After seeing this I had mixed feelings about it. Nobody could argue with the acting and Halle Berry Fans who may not be aware of this film(it's from awhile ago) may want to see it but (and I have to stop here and out) MAJOR ENDING SPOILER!!!!!

The movie kind of lacks credibility because of the unreal quality of the ending. In real life it just usually would not happen like this. While it's perfectly OK for movies to be unrealistic in this case the movie starts off to gamely tackle a very important REALISTIC issue that a lot of humans go through. The ending was not only unrealistic it was almost implausible.

I was quite young when I first saw this and at the time I was glad it ended as it did because the movie was heartbreaking enough so being young I WANTED a nice cut and dried Hollywood ending.

But now being all grown up and seeing the agony real people go through in this situation I'm not sure the ending was as good as I thought then. Of coarse it would be really REALLY difficult for the writers to end it any other way and thus appear to take sides. So they chose to play it safe. I think the movie would, however have been taken more seriously had it maybe been done a little differently though of coarse that would have come with it's own set of problems.

Maybe Losing Isaiah was a movie that was just to ahead of its time.

score 7/10

triple8 12 November 2003

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