Don't miss this movie!

Rating: 10/10 (23 March 2007)

This was a great movie, Matt Damon has always been a fantastic actor, and it shows again here.
I like the film for a few reasons. I like all the main actors, and even though you sometimes run the risk of having too much star power when casting a bunch of A-list actors, this movie had enough supporting roles filled with new actors (and even some supporting roles filled with great names like Alec Baldwin, Timothy Hutton and Billy Crudup) that the integration of the two overcame that risk. I very much liked the historical and literary references. For those of us who are too young to have remembered (or were even born yet) during this time, it was very educational. At no point did I get any feel of Hollywood sensationalism. The poetry references were great, so much so that I went and looked up Ovid's Metamorphoses (http://larryavisbrown.homestead.com/files/xeno.ovid1.htm) after hearing this:
I grabbed a pile of dust And holding it up Foolishly asked for as many birthdays As the grains of dust I forgot to ask that they be years of youth
I'm sure I'll spend the better part of the weekend researching this more.
3 cheers to this movie, very well written, well edited, suspenseful and thought provoking.