American Invincible!

Rating: 10/10 (2 August 2000)

American Beauty is a complete masterpiece! Finally the Academy Award has gotten it right, now 3 years in a row all my picks have won Best Picture of the year, and rightly so. Beauty's story was very well done with a mixture of black comedy and real drama. The lighting, also magnificent, helps the storys grimish atmosphere. Acting, top-notch... never before has Benning been so wonderful and Spacey finally getting the attention he deserves! American Beauty will leave you in a state of wonder... it makes you think, for yourself. However this movie is not for some people, particularly the ones who don't look further than the surface of anything. I know the people I went with in the theater to see this, near hated it... and I came out the complete opposite. But for the most part I am glad everyone in movies is having a more open mind. American Beauty is magical, deeply moving, and poetic... never before have red rose petals meant as much, to anything, as they have here... give this one a shot!