Why We Love John Cusack

Rating: 8/10 (1 June 2015)

John Cusack was born to play roles like these. He is the 'every man', the guy we all relate to. I think it was fate that Cusack has never gotten married because it's added to his appeal with these kind of down on your luck-likable-lovelorn-schlub characters that he plays.
High Fidelity is an honest look at a relationship, at all the different angles, views, Point of views of a relationship. It's honest in its eccentric way by saying the protagonist even messes up, as Cusack's character admits that he cheated on his girlfriend in the film. Most movies would never have the protagonist cheat, most movies would have him/her be perfect, where this is a movie about a real human being, a human being that is likable, but who messes up and throughout his soul search journey he starts seeing all of the things he was doing wrong on, all of the things that are wrong within himself.
A movie true to form, in it's eccentric, story telling way. John Cusack is a good actor. He always plays himself (even though he's probably playing different characters , but we always just see him playing himself). I think a great actor plays himself well (meaning 'what if I was in this situation', 'what if i was in that situation' and that's very tough to do believably), but yet he can play other characters too, which I've never seen Cusack play anyone but himself. Cusack is extremely good at playing himself in all of the different circumstances he's in, in each film he's in. And because he always plays himself, I believe that also adds to his likable appeal. He's got extreme likability and we always love to watch him.
This is a very good film, with great acting, great music, very funny all around. A must see.