unworthy

Rating: 4/10 (23 March 2006)

I wanted to like this movie, as I wanted to like all of the Academy-nominated Best Films, but instead I was so terribly disappointed. The storyline is transparent and one-dimensional, the acting is mediocre to pretty good, and the whole time I waited for 'it' to happen - that moment or scene which grabs you and pulls you into the movie, emotionally tying you to the story, the characters, and the experience. Sadly, it just didn't happen. This movie has one goal, and that is to impress upon the viewer how bad racism is. That is a noble goal, and certainly worth making a film about. But give me a work of art, so that I exit the experience emotionally destroyed, or exhilarated, or something - not a big question mark of an expression on my face. This journey took me nowhere.
As to winning the Academy for Best Picture, I am dumbfounded - how did this happen when each of the other four films were so much better? ANY of the other films were so much more worthy.