American Beauty (1999) - So Much Beauty! I Can't Take It!

Rating: 8/10 (2 July 2011)

Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening star in the biggest film of 1999, "American Beauty". This movie talks about this middle-age pervert for a father, named Lester Burnham, with a an obsessive wife, a quiet daughter, with a friend he secretly crushes for, and meets a strange guy with a video camera filming strange things that refer to him as beauty. Although this movie is completely awkward, that's what makes this movie good. Throughout, there's humor on sex, drugs, profanity, and beauty, duh! Director Sam Mendes is a unique director and brought a wild movie that actually entertains in its own way. Kevin Spacey delivers one of the best performances of the year, and one of the best in his career. Annette Bening is super awesome, and she delivers a lot of charismatic humor. Chris Cooper is golden choice, and Wes Bentley is just wonderful. Alan Ball provides a well-written script that contains perverted humor and some heartwarming messages. This is a well-made film, but it's sometimes awkward and uncomfortable. This leads to some of my problems with the film. This movie is not the type of movie that you and your whole family can see. This contains so much humor that's too unbelievable to notice. It wouldn't be nice to sit there in the middle of the couch with your family, watching something like this. But the rest of "American Beauty" is pitch-perfect. The script is beautifully well-written, the cast is amazingly talented, and the premise of this movie is special in an awkward way. "American Beauty", in my review, "a well-made piece of entertainment, but it's just super uncomfortable".