Difficult

Rating: 3/10 (11 February 2007)

It was very difficult to evaluate this. It passes the test of being memorable. I remember it. Some movies fade away immediately.
It is a hard-time movie and I do not want to say that movies have to be rosy and positive. HOWEVER, I was worn out with the plodding, relentless negative experience of this film. As a new father in particular it hit home very hard and was not unlike a torture treatment in that respect. In the end I have to say thumbs down because it follows the bad, bad, bad, good shawshank redemption blueprint. Sorry. I wanted to like it.
Tim