A lot like Magnolia, but still helluva movie

Rating: 9/10 (30 October 2005)

I would say it's probably in the top 3 movies released this year. There were a couple of scenes I just cried, so that about explains it (and I cry with movies, but only about once a year, so it had to be good).
There are obvious similarities with Magnolia, the worst of all being the fantastic precipitation at the end, luckily not from frogs. In any case, the movie was extremely well directed, and except for Brendan Fraser and Sandra Bullock, the cast was great (I don't feel these two actors have the profile for such a dramatic movie).
I feel that the scenes between Christine and Cameron are some of the most powerful in the whole film, specially the one where they get home after they get pulled over and the one where she has an accident.
Finally, the scene that made my cry was the one when the Chicano locksmith thought his little daughter was shot. Man, the tension and despair...