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C- |
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| Story: |
C |
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| Acting: |
B- |
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| Direction: |
D+ |
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| Visuals: |
D+ |
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It Flounders Like the Titanic!
by Joaquin (movies profile)
Apr 22, 2008
6
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8 people found this review helpful
This movie had a lot of potential but it goes downhill mostly because either the writers or the director fail to connect their script with the intended audience. I am going to assume that their intended audience are the intelligentsia. If so, then the script flounders like the Titanic.
The only reason this movie stays afloat somewhat (for people like me) and is worth seeing is because of David Strathairn, Rachel Weisz, and Natalie Portman. They deliver some pretty good acting performances.
Norah Jones, making her acting debut, should receive the benefit of the doubt. Not necssarily because of her acting, but because she somehow manages to hold her own (bland as her acting might be) with Strathairn, Weisz, Portman and Jude Law. I am confident that she has a bright future in the movies. Give her time and she should will be awesome!
The movie basically revolves around her unexpected and unintended breakup. That sets in motion her new relationship with Jude Law. But that relationship takes almost a year to materialize. She first travels to a few places where she meets people struggling to make sense out of their existence or who are trying to come to grips with and/or correct their respective past and present failings.
I think we are suppose to assume that Norah's character comes full circle and returns to her place of origin so as to also come to grips with her demons.
I give this movie one thumb up and one thumb down. But go see it and judge for yourselve. It still is worth seeing. Really! |
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