It's good, but not the best....

Rating: 7/10 (13 March 2000)

No doubt: American Beauty is a wonderful movie. However, for me, it remained a very American comedy-like movie. It didn't make such a big impression as the reviews and critics promised me. There is too much 'explanation' in the movie, the characters are too flat, Annette Bening is too hysterical to be taken seriously. Also I hated this American wisdom thing: "enjoy the small things in life". For me the movie contained numerous details that made the film unrealistic and predictable the same time. I also had the feeling that the script was kind of censored.