Unbalanced

Rating: 6/10 (11 September 2002)

This film had the potential to be one of the all-time greats. The way the story drags the viewer along into the confused perspective of the main character is engaging and effective. However, with such poor dialogue, such forced acting, and such unbelievable characters, the end result is a film that is incapable of drawing-in much of its audience.
The dialogue was trite, unnatural, and forced, and the characters were developed in such a way that as a viewer, I felt I had seen each of them before in countless school-boy films. From the first second you were introduced to these characters, you knew what they represented. It is incomprehensible how a writer could develop such a multi-dimensional plot, but fill the story with such simple, stagnant characters.
Crowe's Nash came across much like all of Crowe's characters: aloof, unfeeling, and detached. Once again, I found it difficult to empathize with him.