Product: Jesus' Son [VHS]
Rating: 2.0
"I thought about mermaids."
That line from the film kind of sums up what was going through my mind while watching this snorefest. Okay, maybe snorefest is a bit harsh, but I will admit that I dozed off for a few minutes and definitely day-dreamed through at least a third of the film. I'm all for movies that remain somewhat plotless but explore more or less human interaction, but `Jesus' Son' was one of those films that didn't explore much of anything. Honestly if it weren't for Samantha Morton's wonderful performance I may have deemed this a pointless waste of my afternoon, but her performance alone made me happy to have at least sat through this once. Billy Crudup was terrible here. He has done much better in other films but here he just came off amateur.As the nameless narrator Crudup gives us sequences of events that try and tell us who he is as a person but fail miserably to do so. We see him meet and fall in love with Michelle (Morton) and then watch them fail to clean up (their drug use). We watch him pop pills with Georgie (Black in a scene stealing role) who works as an orderly at the hospital our hero (should I call him that) works in. We see him kill some baby rabbits and peep on the Amish woman who lives near him. The problem is that none of these scenes, none of these events really establish any ground or make us care one bit for our narrator (well, I say `us' but I mean `me'...they didn't make me care about him at all). The acting on the parts of Morton, Black and Hunter are great but they are not enough to elevate this movie beyond a one time regret.