Virtual Loneliness In A Virtual-Reality Vacuum

Rating: 1/10 (12 July 2015)

Well, here's 2 things that I quickly learnt while watching "Her".
(1) Having an "intimate relationship" with your computer's operating system can and will be just as lousy, if not worse, than it is having a naively romantic bond with an actual person. It seems that even an operating system has its own personal agenda, as well as its own emotional dramas and other irksome baggage to bring along to the relationship.
(2) I'm convinced that actor Joaquin Phoenix is incapable of playing a likable character. All that I felt for his Theodore Twombly character was nothing but contempt. Within this film's first 10 minutes, I was literally sick to death of Phoenix. And I swear that I'll never watch a film with the likes of him in it again.
For me, "Her", pretty much, played out like a low-budget, Made-For-TV movie. And, yet, this film had $23 million at its disposal. What all that money was spent on is impossible to determine since this film's inferior production values and the overall, sub-par calibre of the cast's performances left this viewer completely unsatisfied.
In conclusion - "Her", to me, was 2 hours and 6 minutes of computer-age rubbish. This film could've easily had its running time reduced by 30 minutes and it wouldn't have made even the slightest difference to its daft, dead-end story.
I honestly can't figure out why so many people are making such a big, stinking fuss over this one, 'cause, believe me, it certainly isn't worth the attention that it's getting.