Could've got so much better

Rating: 1/10 (7 August 2008)

Huge Emotions Interpreter-director's another relationship-rally goes wrong in one detail and with that in everything: Jack Nicholson's mean and racist s.o.b. is GENUINELY sick person, having compulsive neurosis disorder or something like that. Not so much though that he'd be permanently committed or that Helen Hunt's good-looking (and seemingly sane) thirty-something waitress wouldn't fall for the bastard. He's been the way he is 50 years or so, he have had some treatment, seen shrinks etc, so he's not going to improve. He is and will be sick in his mind in the most unbearable way. But Hunt's character just couldn't do better. Very believable. But in the end, and putting it all together, I guess the movie's real message is that even an ignorant and disliked hetero male still succeeds in this world of ours over single-parent mothers and homosexuals. At least Nicholson's character seems to be economically stable and even "satisfied" by his own standards. He has the privilege to safely assume in his state of mind that everything bad is always other people's fault and period.