trotting down the oscar road to perdition...

Rating: Null/10 (14 August 2003)

An OKAY movie. I liked it, but it didn't grip me in a tidal wave of emotion. Director Gary Ross failed in that regard in that I never got a sense of the excitement that supposedly surrounded Seabiscuit back in the thirties.
The more I think about, the more the backstories on the main characters seemed unecessary. It's August and I think the movie will be like last year's summer Oscar movie, The Road to Perdition and will be only nominally remembered at Oscar time. I don't think that this will be the movie to bring Jeff Bridges his trophy.