An in the end empty film

Rating: Null/10 (28 March 2007)

This movie is meant to lead us to believe that all that matters is making money, the fact that is based on a real story does not account to the realness of the characters. Your supposed to like Will Smith's character for the struggle he went through but it were merely six months of his life, and this guy was so despicable that he had no friends or family to help him out. He went through hell but he did by his own choice and he put his child through hell along with him. The kid would probably be better off with his mom, who did work and provided and cared about him. At least that's what they show in the movie.
And the part about the mom giving up her child, first they show us a hard working caring and loving mom and then all of a sudden she just leaves her son behind without any kind of fight, that is really hard to believe. Real people just does not act like that.
And then the end, his great achievement is to get the job and eventually build and sell a company for a lot of money. To be able to do that and still raise a child properly at the same time all by yourself must be really hard. That part I guess would be more interesting to watch. And see if the guy did as good job with his son as he did getting rich. Or just because he made more money and surely was able to pay for a better daycare should make it up for it.
All together the movie just wasn't believable, it is self promoting and absurd. And it even wasn't entertaining even my mom who did somehow liked it found it to be boring.
The acting is good I guess, as good as could be with those unrealistic characters except for the boy, who giving is supposed to be a five year old, seems blissfully unaware of their hardships and doesn't seems to miss his mom at all.
My only consolation is that I did not had to pay to see it, but I would rather spend those couple of hours doing something more productive, like trying to figure out a Rubik's Cube.