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C- |
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D+ |
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C- |
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D |
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C |
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Pedantic Drama - Definitely not "The Odd Couple"
by Songuy (movies profile)
Jun 20, 2008
4
of
5 people found this review helpful
Watching the trailers for this film, I was expecting to see a warm, yet funny take on a couple of guys who in their waining days decide to go out with a bang.
True, they are a couple of guys who in their waining days decide to go out with a bang. True, it was "warm" or maybe lukewarm. But it was only rarely humorous.
Therein lies the disappointment. I was hoping to see an "Odd Couple" or "Grumpy Old Men" style mismatch. (Oh for the days of Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau). This movie had the talents of two great actors who should have been up to the task. However, the writers or director, or Marketing Dept., or someone decided to make a dramatic movie and advertise it as a comedy.
"Bucket" moves laboriously as two older men, one a mechanic, the other owns a chain of hospitals each get terminal diagnosis as they share a hospital room. The mechanic is very philosophical, the hospital mogul driven and demanding. A great deal of time is spent in the shared room examining their growing relationship. Once sprung from doctors care, they go off, traveling the world to fulfill tasks on a "Bucket list" they came up with.
The friendship blooms and has it's ups and downs with philsophical vignettes thrown in here and there. The movie ends tragically, with a warm touch at the very end.
I suppose, If I were into drama and deep examinations of the inner workings and growth of people from one stage to the next, I might have enjoyed this movie. But I do not go to movies to examine the deep meanings of life. I go to be entertained, I went to this one to see a comedy. I felt gypped. Bait and switch. I saw a pedantic and boring drama. |
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