"Eternal Sunshine" is Overrated

Rating: 5/10 (29 March 2005)

I was really looking forward to seeing this film more than a year ago, and when I did, I thought it was alright, but not brilliant. In the coming months, critics and audiences had lauded praise over the film. I do agree that it has some brilliant writing, and the concept is quite an original, but there was one thing it lacked: magic. Maybe I'm the only one, but the movie didn't click with me. I didn't like Kate Winslet's character, and I especially didn't see why Jim Carrey's character was so in to her. Also, the twist ending, about how the beginning of the movie was really the end, I saw coming a mile away.
One last thing, I think Charlie Kaufman is getting way too much attention. I loved Adaptation and Being John Malcovich (sorry, if I've spelled it wrong), but each successive Charlie Kaufman movie is paying more attention to the fact that Charlie Kaufman wrote and not whether the movie is any good.