After watcing the Golden Globes I'm compelled to object!

Rating: 9/10 (11 January 2009)

Fincher and Pitt and should have been accorded a great deal more acclaim than they were. This is an impossible, illogical premise and story, and yet they made it into something poignant and entertaining. Its extra length zipped by effortlessly. My only quibble is that the reverse aging was sometimes somewhat distracting and therefore not quite successful. And then there's Ms Blanchett's performance. Somehow after successfully traversing most of the script, she manages to overdo her part in some inexplicable way. It broke up the flow of the piece and I found myself annoyed with someone I usually love to watch and wonder about. Pitt, however, did a magnificent job, I thought. He was this little man as convincingly as any character actor has ever inhabited someone as far removed from themselves as Benjamin is from the real Pitt.