Stunned me into silence

Rating: 9/10 (5 February 2007)

When it comes to films; there's the cliché filled action films, there's the teenie-boppy pop-princess films for all the wannabe rich American girls out there, there's the heavy emotional films, and somewhere in between this huge muddle of genres colliding is someone trying to shrug off all of these influences, and make an original film.
Now, zach braff doesn't make a film where you can't recognise any influences at all- quite the opposite, you can find parts from nearly every genre in the book in Garden State, whether it be the philosophical lines you inevitably end up quoting weeks later that could have come from the heavy films, or the quirky one-liners that you find yourself in fits of giggles upon hearing- zach braff has taken the best parts from every film I'm ever going to see, and merged them into one epic block of awesome-ness.
Realise this however; this is a 17 year old who is writing this review; 16 when I saw it first and got blown away- I am not saying that this is everyone's kind of film, and that everything in it was absolutely perfect, there were irrelevant scenes, and bad points to the film, but for me- the rest made up for any negative-ness twofold.
No-matter who you are; watch this film with an open mind, and you will come away from it as a bigger person.
10/10 Pookie x