disappointed

Rating: 5/10 (24 December 2010)

What to say... Well, this movie simply did not do it for me. Yes the performances and the accolades for Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis are well deserved and all in high order: the dances, characters and the acting is spectacular and spot on. BUT the story + execution is what is at miss here and what really spoiled the movie for me. The whole movie you simply do not know what is reality and what is fiction of her imagination. So the whole movie you are stuck sitting there and thinking: "Is this for real or is this her mind- yes it must be her mind because it is just so simply messed up..." What is exciting about that? The art of the movies is to portray it in such a clever way that while you know something is a mind trip you still know who is having it and why, and you can still "pretend" or get into the role why they are having it - but in this movie there is nothing that the viewer can identify as reality vs the psychosis of her mind so everything becomes psychotic and fake. And that for me is a bad movie. Again, performances were spectacular but the storyline and especially the execution in my view was a huge flop and the reason for making this movie a sub far flick.