Totally uninvolving

Rating: 3/10 (20 December 2009)

I may sound like a loner, but going into the new drama The Blind Side, I had no idea who Michael Oher was. That's why I did not know what to expect. It was an overused premise, but the trailers looked kind of promise. Unfortunately, the film is an uninvolving, soggy mess from start to finish. The main problem is that they did not focus on the character of Michael Oher (played by Quinton Aaron, who's good in the little screen time he gets.) Instead, they focus on the character of Leigh Anne Tuohy (played by Sandra Bullock, who's annoying in the ludicrous amount of screen time she gets.) The film felt like it was a good star vehicle for Sandra Bullock, but they're dead wrong. The film should of been the Michael Oher story, not the Leigh Anne Tuohy story. The film also feels too old-fashioned for its own good. It feels like I was watching stock footage from the 1930s. The cast, besides Aaron, doesn't feel like they're trying at all. The character of S.J., the son of Leigh Anne and new found friend of Michael is a good character, but newcomer Jae Head who plays him feels like he knows he's in a bad movie, so he stopped trying. As for Tim McGraw and Lily Collins as Leanne's husband and daughter Sean and Collins, they're both seemingly talented people stuck in lame roles in a lame movie. On second thought, that's everyone in the movie.