Inndescribably Lousy

Rating: 1/10 (27 January 2010)

So what if Jeff Bridges a.k.a "Bad Blake" acts his guts out and who knows--might win the Oscar? Big deal.My gripe is all about the VEHICLE in which Bridges excels and it's as "bad" as a symphony orchestra minus a conductor and the entire string section.You won't like what you hear and "Crazy Heart" makes you dislike what you see.
The story line has been told over and over again. It's quite simple.A drunkard who finally understands he's a drunkard and does something about it.Hic..pardon me.And of course we have a woman involved played by Maggie Gyllenhaal. Her acting? Eh. It's like this.
Remember "Walk the Line," with masterful acting by Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon? The life story of Johnny Cash,a man with multiple personal problems? Bad Blake has personal problems.Remember how wonderful were those tunes done by Phoenix? Great songs,indeed.The music in "Crazy Heart" is downright pathetic.My point is that we have two films about similar events and one was brilliantly made in every aspect while the other is tedious, boring, annoying and a total waste of the admission price.
Oh sure, some quasi-intellectual nerd genius will come on here to describe "Crazy Heart's" so-called brilliance and have you mesmerized and so anxious to see it. But once you sit in that theater seat and watch less than an hour, you'll be ready to move on and out. If you want to see a rotten film raved about by critics, then see it. If you take a realistic pragmatic approach and heed what I'm putting down, you'll see something else. Believe you me,this picture is one stinker if there ever was one. In a month it'll do a "Nine" and hit the DVD racks.