Its time to be honest!

Rating: Null/10 (7 April 2000)

'Ah, American Beauty', the phrase we hear so often these days said with the same pretentious longing heard when people say 'Ah, Venice' when they have not even stepped out of their hometowns! I saw the movie after all the hype and my wife's insistence. Granted, there is some pretty good acting by Spacey and Benning, but I didn't see anything extraordinary. My personal theory: Anything Spacey stars in gets this kind of rave reviews due to his links to the Theatre. We Americans have a penchant to appear cerebral and intellectual and pretend to appreciate anything dished out in the name of 'art'. Its time we stopped raving about the emperor's new clothes and started being less afraid to call a spade a spade. Enough said!