Life is a 'Beach'

Rating: 6/10 (11 October 2013)

'The Beach' starts off colored by the shallow and self-obsessed millennial angst of Gen X/early Gen Y that was (is?) so rampant at the time, and by the time it's over any interesting observations it makes about human nature or modern society are undermined by the fact that it looks like a J. Crew catalog in motion.
Solid performances and gorgeous locations aside, 'The Beach' is an often grating snapshot of every loathsome characteristic that now sadly defines my generation. I remember liking this so much more back in '00, when I was filled with shallow and self obsessed millennial angst myself.