Not That Good

Rating: Null/10 (28 February 2004)

This film I was looking forward to because it was a fresh new director that I had never heard of and Kevin Spacey was in it, which is great for any film really, but not really. Spacey was really good in this film and without him it would have bad, because he drives you throughout and I can't imagine anybody pulling off his charisma in the way he does, but that's it. The rest of the film is one of those trying to prepare you for the future movies, where you are trying to be convinced that this is the way your life will be when you hit your male mid life crisis. I just thought this film to be educational which is not a bad thing, Bowling for Columbine taught me that, but sometimes when you think that your life is going great, you all of a sudden get brought down by being reminded that this could happen to you. I for some reason do not believe in this, I think a human being will be doing what they do at any age good or bad because they were meant to be. We all have choices to make our life a better one, this film just shows you a man pulling away from his family when he should have been grabbing onto them, but then again the film is based around the tragedy of life, so to most of you what I just said is probably a load of rubbish. Still this film only got its audience by crap one liners from a great actor who should have not been in this film. I think the main reason I hated it so much was Thora Bird, The guy who likes to watch plastic bags float and film them (what a nerd) and dysfunctional family life which does not interest me in the slightest, apart from Parenthood that was a classy film which took itself seriously.