Innocence Lost

Rating: 7/10 (1 December 1998)

Why do people still to go to the cinema instead of enjoying the comfort, cheapness and convenience of their own TVs, VCRs, DVDs, cable or satellite movie channels? The local multiplex certainly offers the latest (but not greatest) features, the big screen, the "night out" achievement, and a certain social comarderie with the huddled masses in the darkened theatre. However, for this movie it is the very masses themselves that detract from any enjoyment of the film. In any given theatre, on any given evening the film will be playing to a teenage female majority, whose primary interest in the film in the presence (not ability) of Mr Pitt. Anyone considering this movie who is either male or over the age of 18 should wait until it appears at their local video store and save themselves the squirms, whispers and giggles of the attending sycophants. The nauseous whimpering reaches a crescendo of near audible hormones when Mr Pitt is helped out of his shirt for the obligatory sex scene. And while you're in the video store, take a look in the "classics" section for "Death Takes a Holiday" and see how the material should have been handled.