Jersey Boys

Rating: 5/10 (21 June 2014)

As someone who isn't exactly the biggest fan of The Four Seasons, and once was sucked into seeing the Jersey Boys play out in Vegas and thought it was average, I was unsurprisingly left unmoved by JERSEY BOYS. It's not necessarily that it was bad, but the amount of indifference I have towards this film is immaculate. I can't say that the writing was positive because there were too many situations in which I should have been sad but I was laughing way too hard. There was a bizarre glossy Clintestian glare on the camera through the span of the story that did not serve any purpose besides reminding us the movie was directed by Clint Eastwood. The performances were fine, but fine was where it stopped. I feel as though an Oscar performance could have been given in a few of these roles, but a few of the characters just played it way to safe and did not try hard enough to make it special. And that exactly is the problem with the rest of JERSEY BOYS, it doesn't take enough risks to make it special. Again, its not that I didn't like the film, but I thought it was far too on the average side than it should have been. GRADE: C+