Surprising

Rating: 10/10 (11 January 2003)

(Spoiler alert!) At first I thought this movie was just an ordinary dull problem family drama, but then it started doing parody of that kind of stuff. No wonder American Beauty is so popular, Lester Burnham does about everything an ordinary fellow dreams about doing some day but is just too scared to try. Seemed like everyone was ready to kill him and it was only about who was going to do it first. I guessed the right person, probably because I missed a few minutes from the beginning on the first time watching and didn't get affected by the scene where his daughter hires the boy next door to kill him. But then it was the Colonel after all. Never believed the wife could actually shoot Leslie, all though she was mad, and at least not when he was staring the family photos. That would have been too thick. A great ending anyway, for some reason the main character getting shot is always a good selection.