Awful

Rating: 2/10 (18 February 2005)

This was one of the worst movies I have seen in a while. Generally I wouldn't bother bad-mouthing a movie like this to others, but this movie is that bad and is getting praise it does not come close to deserving. I also don't want anyone else to waste 109 minutes of their life like I did watching this. I admit my expectations were a bit high, because there is oddly some good word-of-mouth on this film, but the more I think about this movie the less I think of its quality. I had no sympathy for the main character whatsoever. I haven't seen Zach Braff in anything else but his acting was absolutely terrible in this and the number of isolation shots he chose of himself as director hints at self-obsession. I don't know where to start with the script, but I'll just say the dialogue made me shudder at times it was so bad. The only thing that saved it from being a "1" was Natalie Portman's performance, which wasn't bad.