Cinematic Ambien

Rating: 1/10 (14 May 2013)

When you fall asleep listening to Bradley Cooper ramble on with Jennifer Lawrence about absolutely NOTHING in the middle of this film, wake up 22 minutes later and notice that you missed absolutely NOTHING, it's time to give this piece of junk the review it deserves. I feel this way mostly since we entered into the on-demand contract to watch this drivel on the advice of the Academy and hundreds of delusional viewers who somehow feel this film has something to offer. Silver Linings Playbook is a poorly scripted and marginally acted film. It fails to deliver ANY semblance of anything. The script is horrible, the story is beyond boring, the "chemistry" between any of the actors is invisible, if not completely absent, and frankly, I couldn't have cared less how it ended. I think I laughed twice in two hours, that is, when I wasn't snoring. Jennifer Lawrence's apparently Oscar-worthy performance was completely overshadowed by the fact that she said NOTHING for nearly two hours. I mean NOTHING. Between her and Cooper, it was incomprehensible gibberish, and it went on and on like Ahmedinejad at the UN. Just two plus hours of rambling. The mindless, worthless script overshadowed Cooper's apparently reasonable performance as well. DeNiro was the only bright spot, but his performance was forced and he wasn't believable as Cooper's father - not even a resemblance. Bad casting. Wait, Cooper's character might have been adopted - I'm not sure. I might have missed that during my 22 minute snooze. Eh, didn't matter anyways if it were the case. The chemistry there was horrible as well. I can't even give away anything about the film in a spoiler because there's frankly NOTHING TO SPOIL here. I could tell you the ending and it wouldn't mean a thing - you could go ahead and watch away with nothing to look forward to except wishing you'd spent the $6 on a latte at Starbucks or a couple of discount rentals of decent films. Stay away from this film unless you really need some sleep.