The stoning can commence

Rating: 1/10 (31 July 2004)

Sorry, but this film wasn't all that great. In fact, I'll probably never see it again. After all the outcry that 'Lost in Translation' should have won the Oscar or that Sofia Coppola deserved the Best Director Oscar, I imagined that this film was sheer brilliance. Boy, I was shocked. OK, the story was actually good. And perhaps, if it were a book or even a play, I would have enjoyed it. Maybe if there were different actors portraying the characters, or maybe if it was set somewhere else or maybe... there's a lot of 'maybes' that could have made this film live up to the hype. At the end of watching it, I sat there thinking, "OK, so what?" It did absolutely nothing for me other than pass a rainy Sunday evening. A movie doesn't need splashy special effects or heart wrenching death scenes or the actor gaining thirty pounds or anything of the sort for it to be wonderful, Oscar worthy, or even enjoyable. What it does need is life and 'Lost in Translation' left me Lost in Purgatory.