Eternal Sunshine tries so hard to be a movie.

Rating: 2/10 (19 August 2009)

This movie is messy, frenetic, incoherent and it tries so hard to tell a story. Unfortunately for Jim Carrey, this is just one of many serious roles he chose that just didn't pan out. It works so arduously to be clever and touching but it isn't either. I got the point of the story, and I understood the direction and feel of the movie, I just didn't care. I was told by numerous people that they thought of me while watching this movie, and I had to see it. I wish I hadn't, honestly. Just a long, boring disappointment.
Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet) was an unlikeable character. Nothing about her or her actions made me care about her in the slightest.
I just kept wishing the memory-erasing technology would slip, and wipe Joel Barish's (Jim Carrey) slate completely clean, he'd forget he was a character in a story, and the movie would end.