DDL was a good actor... that's about it.

Rating: 5/10 (2 March 2008)

OK, DDL was great in this movie... Oscar worthy? Maybe... maybe not. NCFOM was much more worthy of best movie though in my eyes. It had characters I could actually give a .... about, humor that was actually funny, and a plot that didn't leave me wishing I'd just read a book. But by all means, go see it yourself. A lot of people liked it for some reason and these will remain reasons I won't understand, no matter how much praise this production gets. There were so many other great, dark films released this year that embraced each other simultaneously and pulled it off. I get the point of this movie. Evil beats good and money is more powerful than religion. Is that supposed to be a metaphor for the current situation in the U.S.? If so, I get that point. But I don't have to watch a depressing movie with no richness other than the main characters acting to realize that. It's painful enough living in our society to have to watch it again in another time period on a much, MUCH smaller scale.