Uh...

Rating: 8/10 (9 January 2000)

Come on, people! This movie isn't all THAT great. It's good, but it's not "the best movie to come into theaters in years". It was good and gives you something to think about, but I didn't leave the theater thinking my life had been changed forever. All this movie gave me was an even higher respect for Annette Bening and Kevin Spacey. Is it possible for a movie to be really really good just because it had a good ending? If anyone would like to tell me what the last five minutes had to do with any of the rest of the movie, please tell me. Feel free to tell me what the whole movie meant. I'm guessing it was that no matter how stupid everything is, there's still beauty somewhere. So what? What if we already knew that? It was a nice message/reminder, but it didn't have to take 2 hours.
I'm not trying to offend anyone, I just really don't understand why everyone thinks this movie is so incredibly fantastic. It was cool how all of a sudden Lester could do something decent in the middle of all the indecency going on all around him at the end, and the part where the girl asked him how he was, and he smiled, that was good. Touching.
It was good, and I'd give it a thumbs up before I give it a thumbs down, but it just didn't work for me. Wonderful ending. But, as I asked before, should an incredible 5 minutes of a 2 hour movie justify the entire movie as good? Help me out here, people! Why does everyone think this is good? Why? Why? Not a best-picture-winner-worthy movie. Nominee, sure. And Annette Bening better win best actress.