Not for us

Rating: 1/10 (25 February 2009)

I've got to agree that this movie did absolutely nothing for me.
There was nothing special about the acting. The story was predictable and ultimately dissatisfying.
I only watched this movie AFTER it had won best picture. I kept waiting for the "good part", and then it was over. The "good part" never arrived.
I wasn't alone ... my wife liked it even less than I did, which I wouldn't have thought possible. As soon as it ended, she immediately asked "Why did we waste our time on that?" I had no answer.
Maybe we're just old enough that we've seen everything in this movie before, in fact over and over and over again. And since we watched movies and TV drama thru the 70s, we've seen plenty of movies where "no one won". If you are young enough that all you've ever seen are sugar coated and deus ex machina endings, then maybe the "no one wins" ending is a surprise. To us it just invalidated the struggle of the characters we had watched throughout.