Could Have Been Great...

Rating: 5/10 (28 September 2006)

This film had everything it needed to be a great film. It was insightful, entertaining, and well directed. And then it hit the two-hour mark and went downhill. The first two hours of the film were the best film I've seen all year. The film went to such great lengths to draw you in. You felt like you knew the characters. You cried when they cried. You suffered when they suffered. However, the last forty-five minutes, the film changed. I hate giving spoilers, so I won't say exactly where the film went bad. If you've seen it, then you know. If you haven't, then you will find out. Let's just say that there was nothing shown that was absolutely vital to the film. It could have all been summed up in about four lines of text and the film would have been done and it would have been a cinematic masterpiece. Instead, you have a two-hour masterpiece and a forty-five minute piece of crap.