Worth the time

Rating: Null/10 (7 May 2000)

If you have a short attention span, you won't like this movie. If you like the unreality factor, bad guys shooting cops and drug dealers are your heroes, you won't like this movie.
If, however, you are an otherwise normal person who has ever been in love, you should invest the, what, 12 hours? ;) to watch this very well done movie.
The thing is, you KNOW there will be cliches... but there are so many Hollywood cliches, you never really know which one to expect! Will he succeed? Will he fail? Will they stay together, will she stay? It doesn't matter.
No really, it just doesn't matter! Because in the end, you actually feel like you have just lived these peoples lives. The emotions will choke you up and you will wonder if everyone else watching with you are turned away so you won't see the tear on their face either.
In fact, honestly, I did not want to watch this movie. I didn't want to like it. But it really did draw me in. Seriously, the acting was mediocre, various and many details annoyed me... but the whole is far greater than the sum of the parts.