Plastic bags can kill.

Rating: Null/10 (20 October 2000)

It seems for the first time in years the critics and the public agree, American Beauty has garnered critical acclaim and has stormed the box office. The question I ask in hindsight is "why", is American Beauty really that good. In my opinion, no its not, don't get me wrong I do think it is an amazing film and that it has some very pertinent points to make about modern American society. However American Beauty's story has been covered so many times before and even this year Magnolia in my opinion surpassed it.
True, Kevin Spacey was amazing but Annette Bening in my opinion was even better. I found Mena Suvari's character tiresome in the extreme and Thora Birch was just too sullen to gain any respect from me. The theme behind American Beauty is that in life we should always look closer and that even Beautiful things can be ugly and vice versa look closer at American Beauty and I think you will see that the film lacks any real depth.