Flawed, but Emotive

Rating: Null/10 (8 May 2003)

This is one of many films where the ending makes the movie. Beautifully sentimental and Sigur Ros' "Njosnavelin (The Nothing Song)" is probably one of my favorite songs of all time.
Where the movie is flawed is its dialogue. Perhaps Crowe should have been reminded of "show, don't tell"? In addition, Tom Cruise is tolerable in this film, as I generally hate him, but you have to ask yourself how long a 40 year-old man can continue to pretend to be about 28.
I think it's certainly better than the average Hollywood tripe and scores fairly high in the "enjoyable" category, if I can get past the flaws.
**1/2 out of ****