Great concept but comes short

Rating: 7/10 (16 December 2015)

The film by David Fincher is based on the concept of the reverse aging process where the protagonist in the film Benjamin played by Brad Pitt is born with an unusual disease where he is aging backwards.Adapted from the fictional story 'The curious case of Benjamin Button' written by great American writer of the 20th century F.Scott Fitzgerald, the film goes with a slow pace with very minimum twists and turns but keeps the viewer on the edge for some unexpected development as the concept itself is a very interesting one and seeing that it's kind of disappointing with what the film is able to achieve and that is just a one time watch because of it's amazing concept.Only the title and the concept is retained from the book and the plot of the film is very different from the original story in the book.The film revolves around Benjamin who is born on the day the world war 1 ends but after giving birth to him his mother dies and his father abandons him after he sees his face thinking of him as some kind of monster but a caretaker of old people who runs an old age home, Queenie(Taraji.P.Henson) takes him in and looks after him, the boy grows up and becomes younger day by day. The film has a beautiful rhythm to it and the love story of Daisy(Cate Blanchett) and Benjamin is beautifully choreographed with the sentiments of the Benjamin who is left with a choice to either father his child in unusual circumstances and complicates his family's life or leave so that his daughter would have a normal life.overall the film is a good watch but has a lot of loopholes with no one taking attention of a miracle like reverse aging process in the manner it should be taken and the lack of emotions from the characters in the film is kind of unsettling.Brad Pitt's acting is average and other characters in the film other than that of the captain of the ship Mike Clark(Jared Harris) and Queenie fail to impress.