mostly well written,slow but still interesting

Rating: 6/10 (27 May 2005)

i really liked this movie,& i think its a lot better written than million dollar baby,but this artsy fartsy direction is not to my taste. i know its the sort of thing that all the critics love,but i feel it really distracted from a pretty interesting story.lots of blurry,out of focus scenes of lights & other non essential to the story images.but i gotta say,it was extremely well written,even if the direction did drag it out in several scenes,& there is one scene in particular that really made no sense at all.i would elaborate, but i hate to spoil things for people who haven't seen it yet,so i wont.really, i would have scored this movie much higher,if it wasn't for the blurry,out of focus,slow dragging out of a few scenes,but over all, this is a very good movie that doesn't hold your hand while it explains every minute little detail to its audience.it lets you figure it out for yourself & that was half the fun