Big Mole

Rating: Null/10 (24 February 2004)

There are many things that irritate me about this 'Forrest Gump' with arrogance, but none so much as the screen time given to Ewan McGregors mole.
I'm not a huge fan of his 'work', anyway and consider him fairly emotionless (his smile false, his tears forced) but I've always been irritated by that black as night dot on his right cheek. Why doesn't he get it removed, or cover it. To me it's as much a signature as Connery's accent, and I always fail to get round it and accept McGregors character.
In this film his mole is given higher significance and, embarrassingly, is deemed of greater importance than the films other star, Albert Finney - who, as the old McGregor, has to sport an identical mole. Same too the YOUNGER McGregor, also inflicted with the charcoal melonomus.

But to the story: (may contain SPOILER)
Like two not very good films not very well blended (some of the technical aspects and use of filters are dreadful). With a manipulative heart-tugging ending which fails to hide the fact that even if Crudups' character learns to accept his fathers truth of memory, still had a really crap childhood.