The Unbearable Lightness of Low Fidelity

Rating: Null/10 (7 April 2000)

I have rarely consumed a film that I fought to stay in my seat for the first 2/3'rds of the film then enjoyed the denouement... This is one of those films where the trailers from T V suck you in and generally, that's all there is to it! The concept of Cusack "narrating" his "lists" (that were very uninteresting to begin with, I really didn't care about him or his lists) made this film a very lonely situation for the viewer. I have spent lots of my life consumed with the days this film was based upon, trying to "recapture" my similar period of life because it was as the filmmakers tried to capture, a very free, uncertain and exciting time of life. But it didn't do it for me. Cusack was boring in his narration mode and that's all there was to this film for a long, long time. Only when the main love interest's father died did the film move at a nice pace with an interesting "backstory" in that the old girlfriend "saw the light" at the same time as Cusack which made for "chemistry" this film so sorely lacked until this point. When the writer from the music magazine that Cusack had a spark for, appeared I "felt" exactly what the filmmakers wanted me to and I was thrilled!! I woke up!. The main interests continued their pursuit of "life" situations and showed some maturity and made me feel like I learned something from this particular situation towards the end of the film. The sound track that I heard so much hype about actually sucked, in my opinion. I hope the producers didn't pay much for the drops (music) because they didn't make any sense to me until the film started to be interesting.
It should have been made as a short film for a film festival, say the last 30 minutes, then it would have been completly watchable.