Unique story, done very nicely, and Brad Pitt is superb.

Rating: Null/10 (28 May 2009)

When one looks at the several thousand movies each one of us is exposed to very few of them have really unique ideas in them. I can quickly think of "Being John Malkovich", "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", "Groundog Day", "Pleasantville" ... all unique and fine movies.
"Benjamin Button" falls in that category. This one unique individual, born in 1918, starts out with all the symptoms of old age, a very small person with a body about to wear out, and as time goes by he grows but ages backward. He gets younger and healthier as he gets older. Brad Pitt is Benjamin Button.
Meanwhile Cate Blanchett as Daisy is in modern times on her deathbed, but she met Benjamin when she was maybe 6 and he was maybe 12. Daisy and Benjamin were always destined to be in each others' lives forever, but how would that really work? When she was a small girl he appeared to be an old man. When they were in their 40s they appeared to be at about the same points in their lives.
The third key character is Julia Ormond as Caroline, Daisy's daughter at her bedside, in New Orleans, as hurricane Katrina was approaching.
The movie is a bit long, at 2.5 hours, but it never gets boring and the time passes nicely. We saw it on DVD and took a 10-minute break somewhere past half-way. But a fine, different, superb movie.