I agree

Rating: 8/10 (6 April 2001)

Among many critics of American Beauty` I found exactly one negative. Almost everybody likes this film and, although I have to agree with the author of that bad critic in a few points, it is really almost perfect. I would not say the story is new, it's just the old American-Dream-loser-story presented again in a quite exaggerated way, but who cares? The topic will be interesting as long as the American Dream exists and if there is a good film about it, it's this one. Kevin Spacey was the logical cast for the male lead, but Annette Bening gives a surprisingly superb performance as his wife. Also the young actors do a good job. The best stories are those you can't summarize in a few sentences. I don't think it's necessary to go too much into detail, I just wanted to add one more absolutely positive comment. If you haven't seen American Beauty` yet, go and watch it.