The drama! The tragedy! The pointlessness!

Rating: 1/10 (20 May 2004)

Spoiler Oooh! The drama! The tragedy! The pointlessness.
Forest Gump is the inane story of an insipid person with the usual Hollywood slant. A brain-dead person somehow shapes the course of history and we are supposed to believe it.
The drama is over the top and forced. Are we really supposed to cry when his girlfriend dies during the early AIDS years? "I caught a virus" she says. Come now now, at that time most of the infected people were promiscuous homosexual men.
And in the end we find out that the brain-damaged Gump is wiser than nearly everybody else. This one is so bad it must have Tom Hanks in it.