Murray's best performance

Rating: Null/10 (4 June 2000)

This film is Murray's best work to date. His performance is so natural and believable one knows he is Phil Connors. The timewarp is both hilarious and meaningful, with no explanation but the one you find for yourself, perhaps like life. The town of Punxsatawny is a living society in this film and the more one watches it, the more small details of the community you begin to see. There are so many recurring characters and small details to pick up on. The range of emotions and eventual redemption of Phil is a compelling study of humanity and the way we exist in our modern society. Never enough time to do what we really want. These messages are wrapped up in hilarious incidents, but Phil's suicide phase and the deaths of the old man reveal that this film is easily something deeper than a romcom.