A Life Less Ordinary
"A Life Less Ordinary" has received mixed reviews from film critics. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 41% based on 37 reviews, with an average score of 5.38/10. The sites critical consensus states ""A Life Less Ordinary" has an intriguing cast and stylish work from director Danny Boyle, but they're not enough to overcome the story's fatally misjudged tonal mishmash." Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score in the 0–100 range based on reviews from mainstream critics, calculated an average score of 35% for the film, based on reviews from 22 critics. Andrew Johnson wrote in Time Out New York, "The outsiders' take on America that Boyle and screenwriter John Hodge bring to the film adds to its humour, as do subtle homages to other movies (including "The Road Warrior", "Reservoir Dogs" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark"). Parts of "Life" lean toward the saccharine, and the ending could be stronger, but none of that prevents it from being one of the years' most charming date movies."