I really wanted to like it

Rating: 5/10 (15 February 2008)

All I could think of while watching this movie was of the controversy over the rights to the final edited version. Had it been tighter, and a good 30 minutes shorter, I would have enjoyed it more. The simple yet hole-filled plot was dragged for too long for the sake of interjecting "moments" and songs. Sometimes this device would work, but at others it would seem too contrived to the point where my husband and I would take turns guessing which song would come next: the minute I saw the TV reports on the death of MLK, we knew that JoJo would sing "While My Guitar Gently Weeps".
I was entertained until I was exasperated. Maybe it is a movie meant to be enjoyed more under an alternate state of consciousness.