Ok... what?

Rating: 4/10 (20 July 2019)

The only thing more annoying than the fake argument at the table and Immature acting of everyone including both Gylenhaals, is the sudden fade outs.
Bonus: "Just sit next to the boy you think is the cutest"
Did the teacher just harassed a girl in the classroom? Super weird and inappropriate. The English teacher is easily the weirdest character I've seen in any movies. The basic plot is ok, and maybe well developed. But, any detail added has just made it excessive and very unnecessary. Darko's supposed to be very smart, this is done by making every single person around him incredibly dumb.
Horrible CGI, and if you think what to expect from a 2001 movie, watch the terminator 2! Not much to talk about this movie, really, just a badly told sad story. It feels like, an unexperienced self absorbed director has gotten access to a low amount of budget, and has spent it all on his mediocre actors' food. Disturbingly, this movie has no real point to make. "You can't change one's destiny?"
This is not about anyone's attempt to try and change one's destiny at all.
The relationships in this movie are underdone, Barrymore's weird teaching, the sister's genius that's gotten her to Harvard . As far as the screenplay goes, it's messy.
Not to omit the presence of one Mr. Seth Rogen who was much younger back then.
School bullies, seemingly posh but in fact bad neighborhood, child crimes...
Maybe this is a good movie if you haven't really watched a lot of good ones or you're a teenager.
Or, maybe this is a good movie and I have missed it completely.