Understated, Overwhelmed

Rating: Null/10 (24 April 2002)

I saw this film the other day, and was totally overwhelmed by the sheer simplicity of it. All the guys in it are brilliant - even Robin Williams,and I am not a RW fan - and it has been crafted in such a believable, unschmaltzy way that your emotions are knotted up around it before you even realise. The plot is resolved in such an understated fashion that you end up far more contented at the finish than you would have with some cheesy, climatic reunion. The drama in this film is so silently compelling that I defy anyone to watch it without feeling some empathic emotion.