saccharin

Rating: 5/10 (25 November 2002)

I was disappointed by the false tone of this movie. Its phoniness stands in stark contrast to the excellent Shawshank Redemption.I guess my feeling about the film is this: sure, we can pretend that people talk and feel like this and while we're at it we can all put teddy bears in our cars, get fat talking on cell phones while driving around mindlessly and watch wrestling together in sports bars. Or we could be honest, be grown-ups, be fully human, and acknowledge that this film is mainly false. But maybe that's just me. The second half of the film is better than the first, but it feels like the whole thing was made by people walking on egg shells. Gag.