Terrible

Rating: 1/10 (18 July 2009)

This movie is terrible. It tries to make grand statements about the hopelessness of cookie- cutter suburbia and attempts to provide insightful character studies, but it fails miserably on both counts. The dialogue is particularly bad; as brilliant as Kate and Leo can be, they sound like cut-rate community theatre actors. The flashbacks and flashforwards are poorly handled and not only add nothing to the story but also detract from it. The pacing is way off, the score is a nuisance, and the subplot (such as it is) of the secretarial other woman almost seems poorly edited, as if the initial scenes were forgotten until the creators needed another bump in an overly flat narrative road. The only meritorious part of this movie is the character of John, the institutionalized neighbor son. His role is creepy and thankfully less monotone than the rest, but even this is not nearly reason enough to put up with the remaining mediocrity. Don't forfeit two hours of your life for this film.