A movie that could have been amazing...

Rating: 4/10 (30 July 2004)

I really hate it when something like this happpens, you have a movie, with an amazing story, with unlimited potential, and then Hollywood has to go and screw it up by casting it with teen "hearthrobs". There is so much wrong with this movie it's not even funny. Small stuff that anyone making a movie should know, most of it's just common sense. Ryan Gosling was wrong for this part for a number of reasons, the part needed a good actor. He had about three emotions in the movie, "smile", "loving anger", and "lonley". That's all. The role should be contended for best actor at the Academy Awards, but they had to give it to someone based on looks, it's ridiculous. James Garner and Gene Rowlands were just pathetically fake. Their acting was so over the top and so bad it made me laugh several times in the movie. This movie has a very good story, but it was ruined by Hollywood. Who knows, maybe in 20 years they will remake it with better actors, hopefully.