This Movie BLOWS (contains spoilers)

Rating: 2/10 (19 May 2003)

This movie is awful. Yet, its a 'classic' that critics (and others) worship and watch over and over again. Every potential stalker that has seen this movie has probably found it heartening and realistic, but I didn't. Jesus Christ! How could this movie even be considered a classic? Dustin Hoffman's character, Benjamin, is WHOLLY unrealistic. How could he have fallen in love with Elaine after ONE STINKING DATE? Let alone what happens next when, to add to the romance, the next time he sees her he tells her that he has had an on-going affair with HER MOTHER!! Believably, Elaine doesn't want to see him anymore. And then, let the stalking begin.. he moves to Berkley to get Elaine to marry him? This would be acceptable and even interesting if the movie then detailed his legal troubles and psychological issues surrounding his incarceration for harrassment, but no, the UNBELIEVEABLE happens. Elaine falls for him! What stupidity! He breaks up her parents marriage and then, she falls right into his arms, after two exchanges between them containing less words than this review? Even Jesus hates this movie.