Forrest Gump Redux

Rating: 1/10 (18 December 2008)

If you loved Forrest Gump, you'll love this film -- if, on the other hand, like me, you thought Forrest Gump was vapid, saccharine and soulless, then you'll find this movie as infuriating and awful as I did... every step of the plot is painfully, agonizingly predictable, and as cheesy and syrupy as a Hallmark card. The film is stunningly shot and very well directed, and the performances are uniformly solid, but the script is unforgivably pointless, empty and shallow. As with Forrest Gump and similar films, there's something deeply offensive about treating complex subjects like aging, illness, pain and death with sweeping "aw, shucks, everything turns out for the best" generalizations...