Review: Gone Baby Gone (2007) [Reviewed By Clifford Kiyabu]

Directed by: Ben Affleck
Written by: Ben Affleck (screenplay) and Aaron Stockard (screenplay)
Genre: Crime / Drama / Mystery
MPAA: Rated R for violence, drug content and pervasive language.
Released: 19 October 2007
Starring: Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, John Ashton, Amy Ryan, Amy Madigan, Titus Welliver, Michael K. Williams, Edi Gathegi, Mark Margolis, Madeline O'Brien, Slaine, Trudi Goodman, Matthew Maher.

Plot: Two young private detectives are hired to take a closer look at the mysterious disappearance of a little girl and soon discover that nothing is what it seems. Ultimately, they will have to risk everything -- their relationship, their sanity, and even their lives -- to find a little girl-lost.

Review: 9/10

My Thoughts: When ever I hear the name Ben Affleck. I tend to feel like I’m going to be sick, why you may ask? because as an actor he is horrible, just horrible and everything he‘s done in his career (including Jennifer Lopez) has been one mistake after another, so when I heard about a little known film called ”Gone Baby Gone” I thought oh no hear comes another piece of garbage from a man who doesn’t relies nobody thinks he’s good, but than I heard he wasn’t even starring init but directing with his brother Casey Affleck starring in it so I thought hey this could be interesting, I mean after all Casey hasn‘t disappointed me yet. But after about the first five minutes into the film all the harsh feeling I ever had towards Ben just suddenly melted away, if a single moment can change ones prospective towards one individual, than this was my moment towards actor, or should I say director Ben Affleck, I can see that this movie was filmed with the utmost care, with an almost flawless screenplay which was written by Ben Affleck and his good friend and screenwriter Aaron Stockard, the movie is a high tension adrenaline rush that takes you on a rollercoaster ride of twists and turns that never let up not to the very end, I will say that the film is not your typical everyday run of the mill cop drama, it‘s dark it‘s gritty, and it’s not afraid to tell it like it is even though you may not want to hear it, it also shows you the hard risks some individuals must take to ensure the safety of others, the story alone is emotionally nerve racking and will have you at the edge of your seat the hole way, and will question your morals in life and ask you; if you had the opportunity to kill a bad person knowing that this world would be one less scumbag living init, would you do it? Or better yet, would you be willing to do something wrong knowing it is right?

I also liked the fact that most of the cast is made up of nobodies and has-beens because if the movie had nothing but big name actors it would have been a disaster and another product of the Hollywood machine that only pumps out popcorn flicks for a buck year in year out, but no by casting every part for no names made this great on a magical and person level for both the filmmakers and the moviegoers, not to mention unlike most movies this one takes a more down to earth take with it’s setting, showing you the people of Boston and the streets they walk and the places they live, showing you both the good and the bad, which is more to real life than any other film I’ve seen in a long time, also I loved the cinematography, it was wonderful, simply wonderful, it gives the film this feeling that made it felt real like this really happened and that this wasn’t a movie but we ourselves were voyeurs looking into a real life situation going down, and I promise you’ll have this film still in your mind days after watching it with the constant thought of what if, and what would you have done in the same situation as the characters were put into, and I guarantee you’ll keep re-playing it around and around in your head about it trying to think what would you have done and ultimately you’ll conclude that the answers will always fall into a gray area, also one of the most important things I loved was the score which is done by Harry Gregson-Williams, it is extremely powerful while at the same time remaining humble, I tell you as I write this I am listening to it and never have I been so inspired by a soundtrack since the Crash soundtrack by Mark Isham.

The story is about during the hype of a child kidnapping, a Boston area privet detective named, Patrick Kenzie (Affleck) is hired by the family of the kidnapped child to assist the police in their investigation because he knows the tough neighborhood and the right people who might know who took the kid, but the more and more he looks into it the more he is finding it hard to find this child and he is put in a moral dilemma that is tearing him apart.

As for the acting; Casey Affleck is downright terrific, first he did a fantastic performance as Robert Ford in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and now he does it yet again in Gone Baby Gone, I honestly can say I’m starting to see a pattern here, one I hope he sticks too, Michelle Monaghan’s performance was as stunning as she is beautiful, her performance played out quite perfectly, Morgan Freeman as always does a magnificent pro performance, I swear the man has not disappointed me in any of the films he’s ever acted in, Ed Harris was fantastic, his performance was sinister, and yet touching, it was also nice to see John Ashton acting in this because the last time he was in something I can remember worth watching was the Beverly Hills Cop films so it was nice seeing him do something worth watching for a change, Amy Ryan did an outstanding performance which I agree is very much disserving of the Oscar nomination she has gotten for her role in this film.

Final Say: Gone Baby Gone was truly a worth watching film and I was greatly disappointed to find out the Oscars skipped it for the best picture nomination this year because it deserves it. I highly recommend it.

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Review: Across the Universe (2007) [Reviewed By Clifford Kiyabu]

Directed by: Julie Taymor
Written by: Dick Clement (screenplay) and Ian La Frenais (screenplay)
Genre: Drama / Musical / Romance
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for some drug content, nudity, sexuality, violence and language.
Released: 12 October 2007
Starring: Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther, T.V. Carpio, Spencer Liff, Lisa Hogg, Nicholas Lumley, Michael Ryan, Angela Mounsey, Dylan Baker, Erin Elliott, Robert Clohessy, Curtis Holbrook, Linda Emond, Joe Cocker, Bono, Salma Hayek, and Eddie Izzard.


Plot: A romantic musical told mainly through numerous Beatles songs performed by the characters. A young man from Liverpool comes to America during the Vietnam War to find his father. He winds up in Greenwich Village, where he falls in love with an American girl who has grown up sheltered in the suburbs. Together they experience the sweeping changes of America in the late 60's.

Review: 9/10

My Thoughts: The 60’s was a time of change, it was a time of cultural integration at it‘s purest, it was also a time of love and experiencing new things, but most of all it was a rebellious time of a generation who was fed up with the way their country was being run, because of how the people weren’t being heard, it was a time of opening doors to new frontiers, and the film Across the Universe is a marvelous musicale that pays homage to the Vietnam-war era through the music of The Beatles, and fantastically done if I may say so, and remember I the same guy who doesn’t like musicales okay, so that should show you that if I liked it and it being a musicale than it most be good to some degree, so what I find to be most unique and loved about this film is the fact that most musicale are made as a story first with the music written in later, but this movie is a series of astounding songs that when combined with an amazing screenplay is turned into a psychedelic experience, that will have you flying in it’s wonder drug for hours long after the movie is over, also I love how the music in the film tells the story, rather than the story telling the music like so many other musicale in the pass that has done so, and I will admit that I didn’t think it was going to be a great film, maybe an okay movie at the most, but not the powerful masterpiece that it turned out to be, I was shocked and awed at this movie, because it takes the greatest songs by the greatest band of the planet and makes something on an entirely new level of greatness that will be remembered for many years to come.

Now I will say that this movie isn’t for everyone, it’s more like a Love it or Hate it type of film, so before just running out to the nearest best buy or wherever else you go be sure to look up info on the film first, because the last thing I want is people saying I lied it sucked. [Laughs] so what I loved was the film takes you back to a more innocent time and does so in it’s own authentic way through it’s expressing the hurt young people where feeling during this hard time of war, I also loved the way the movie equally tells the different problems of these individuals like in the closet homosexuality, anti war protesting, trying to survive in a war you never wanted to be a part of, falling out of love, and trying to make dissections between love or fame. Things that people today are still dealing with are presented in such a beautiful way in this film which I normally would say wont work for a two hours and eleven minute film, but in this case it did and in such a way that emotionally moved me, now I’m not saying that all these thing conquer the over all love story between Jude and Lucy, no it in fact helps it bridge the gaps between and makes it all the more magical, I also loved the cameos by Joe Cocker, Bono, Eddie Izzard, and Salma Hayek, oh and all you Salma Hayek lovers out there let me point out that there is this particular song number in the film where Joe Anderson’s character Max is in the hospital and being taken cared by almost a dozen Salma Hayeks in skimpy nurse outfits, yes you read it right I said almost a dozen, have you ever thought you ever see almost a dozen Salma Hayeks at once? No? well just thought I should let you all know in case you might want to check that out, and I can tell you now by the end of this film you will feel a little different from before watching it.

The story is about a young man name, Jude (Sturgess) who lived in Liverpool England his hole life with just his mother and is a dock worker always who always dreamed of one day finding his father and when he gets lucky he decides to jump ship in America to find his father, but to his discovery he learns that his father isn’t everything he thought he’d be, now with nothing to do he befriends a young collage student named, Max Carrigan (Anderson) and his sister Lucy Carrigan (Wood) together Jude and Max travel to New York and live together in a shared apartment with Sadie (Fuchs) a rocking singer, alone with the arrival of Lucy comes new found friends JoJo (Luther) and Prudence (Carpio) the five of them embark of a wonderful adventure of new friendships new experiences new loves and all the hardships that come along with it.

As for the acting; it was simple magnificent, Jim Sturgess was dead on for the part of Jude giving the character great emotional power that matches both his voice and the songs he sings, make simpler he was quite stunning, as for Evan Rachel Wood she was remarkable in the role of Lucy, I first seen her on camera in one 2003’s most controversial films “Thirteen” and than again in in yet another risky role in “Down in the Valley” which was also fantastic and just when I thought she couldn’t be any greater she goes and does “King of California” and now I was blowned away with her magnificent performance in this film, now I can’t wait to see what she makes next. As for Joe Anderson this is the first film I have seen him in and I liked his performance a lot, I’ll sure be looking forward to his work in the near further, Dana Fuchs was quite nice in this though her acting was a off key her wonderful voice however made up for it, Martin Luther also did a quite impressive performance for a newcomer in the movie industry, T.V. Carpio did a pretty good job in both acting and in singing, lastly I also like say that actors Dylan Baker, Robert Clohessy, Linda Emond, Joe Cocker, Bono, Salma Hayek, and Eddie Izzard, all do wonderful jobs and even though they have small roles init they manage making this film just a little more special.

Final Say: This is probably one the best musicals I have ever seen in my life and as I‘ve told you before I don‘t like musicals so for me this was really something, I put this right next to The Sound Of Music in my book. I highly recommend it.

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Review: Jumper (2008) [Reviewed By Clifford Kiyabu]

Directed by: Doug Liman
Written by: David S. Goyer (screenplay) and Jim Uhls (screenplay) and Simon Kinberg (screenplay) Steven Gould (novel)
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense action violence, some language and brief sexuality
Released: 14 February 2008
Starring: Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Diane Lane, Jamie Bell, Rachel Bilson, Michael Rooker, AnnaSophia Robb, Max Thieriot, Jesse James, Tom Hulce, Kristen Stewart, Teddy Dunn, Barbara Garrick, Michael Winther, Massimiliano Pazzaglia.

Plot: A genetic anomaly allows a young man to teleport himself anywhere. He discovers this gift has existed for centuries and finds himself in a war that has been raging for thousands of years between "Jumpers" and those who have sworn to kill them.

Review: 7/10

My Thoughts: If you could go anywhere you wanted in the world at the speed of thought, where would you go? Or better yet what would you do with your gift? These are the things that is broth froth in Jumper the movie it’s self is a bit of a mixed bag for me, I’m not saying it’s bad, but I’m not saying it’s good ether, just a mix bag, you see visually it is a spectacle wonder for the all seeing eyes and of course the idea of being able go from one place to the other just by thinking it is down right magnificent, but there is some problems with what director Doug Liman the man who brought us such hits like Swingers, The Bourne Identity and even 2005’s smash hit Mr. & Mrs. Smith. So you’d think with a track record like this he could go no where but up, but what I saw was somewhat of a downgrade from that of his previous works, now again I say this is in no way a bad movie, just not what I hoped it would be, I felt the films origins was rather rushed when there was so much yet to be explored like how are the “Jumpers” capable of teleportation, or how did the paladins learn of people with such gifts and why are they damned in the name of god, you see all of this is left out which should have if not all explained, at least a little.

For starters, we could always learn more in Jumper 2 (If there ever is one) which I do hope there is they do a great deal explaining to do, also there was a bit of holes here and there, like for example; who runs the paladins? Are they still under the command of the Roman Catholic Church? or have they gone rouge and if so who is giving them the orders to continue the killings of such people with special abilities? It’s certainly not Roland (Jackson) he is just a high-ranking commander among the foot solders which was unofficially confirmed in the film itself which obviously means there is a big boss or bosses out there, and yet we don’t see nor even hear of the slightest hint, which if they do make a part two like how it looks like they are trying to do than they better make sense of all this if they do make a sequel.

Another problem I had with the film was the narration at the beginning of the film done by Hayden Christensen, why? Because he lacks the proper vocal capacity to do such of a thing like narrating, it would have been better suiting if someone like Morgan Freeman or even James Earl Jones was the narrator because both of them have a strong and powerful voice that has the ability to move someone in almost any film. But than again having someone like James Earl Jones doing the narration would be a bad idea now that I think of it, why? Well because this movie already stars two Star Wars actors init, and putting another in there would only further the idea that the filmmakers are trying to pay homage to the Star Wars films or something through this film, also I thought there was way to little development for the villains, see what most of these filmmakers like Mr. Liman don’t understand is in this day and age people don’t care about the hero of the story but the villain, I mean yeah sure we all know the villain loses in the end but it’s the bad guy that attracts us to the film because the bad guy goes where we cannot or do the things we only dreamed of doing, so when you look at it most people (I included of course) identify with the wrongdoer more than the do-gooder, so if they are to make a sequel I very much would like to see more on the villains behalf.

The story is about a young man named David Rice (Christensen) who has a near death experiences as a boy, and just moments before he is about to drowns he somehow is teleported into a library away from harm now learning of his new found ability he runs away leaven behind his dad his friends and his long time crush, Millie (Bilson), far from home to start new life with his ability as a bank robber, now fast forward eight years to the present day he is now a young adult with a big penthouse in New York with all the money he could ever want, any woman he’s ever desired and go where ever he wishes at just a thought, but his perfect world soon comes crashing down around him when a man named, Roland (Jackson) tries to kill him, now he comes to realizes that he is not the only Jumper, and that his has stumbled into a holy war that has been going on for centuries, and everyone he’s ever known may very well be in danger including those he left behind.

As for acting, I have been in a debate with a few people over the last day or so about rather or not Hayden Christensen’s acting is somewhat reasonable or not, and in my opinion he isn’t bad but he’s definitely not good ether, some have debated with me that watching a fly fake an orgasm would be somewhat more believable than Hayden Christensen’s acting, seriously though he has got to do better, and it can‘t be blamed on his young age because I have seen much younger and newer stars come to the big screen with better quality in acting (and much less or some even no experience) than what he brings to the table, Now I’m not saying I dislike the guy, no far from it, I think he’s a pretty cool dude, just not cool in the acting department and trust me when I say I have seen a lot of bad performances and his is nearing to be among them if he doesn‘t do something soon, furthermore I would strongly advise Mr. Christensen that he go back to whichever acting school he attended and get more proper acting lessons or at least ask for his money back, because it’s pretty obvious that he did not get his moneys worth,

As Rachel Bilson I honestly have no idea what her part was even in this movie for, other than showing us a little soft-core T&A there was nothing to her character at all, in fact I found every minute she was on camera was a minute wasted when it could have been used to better the plot and the development of the main characters, as for Diane Lane her role was a tad to small to even be called a role, I mean it’s not a cameo, but it’s not a role ether her role should have been worked on more than just four minutes of screen time because that is just an embarrassment for a talented actress such as herself, also Jamie Bell did a nice job in his performance, but lust like Diane Lane his screen time is rather short, especially for someone his has been equally advertised in all the commercials along side Hayden Christensen, and yet he has such a small role which is greatly misleading from that of the ads. Also Michael Rooker did an okay performance, but I’m going to be honest with you here I felt his character didn‘t need all the screen time he was given, and of course last but defiantly not least the man himself, Samuel L. Jackson who was a downright bad motherfucker as the villain (when isn‘t he fantastic) as usual he manages to pull of another stunning performance as the bad but yet cool villain in this movie and can honestly say it was his performance and his alone made this all the more worth wild to watch.

Final Say: Like I’ve said this in no way a bad movie, but it’s not entirely a good one ether because for every good thing there was a bad, I wont recommend this to watch in theaters, but I will however recommend it to see on DVD when it does come out.

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Review: Gone Baby Gone [Reviewed By Kelsey Zukowski]

Gone Baby Gone
Review By: Kelsey Zukowski
Starring: Casey Affleck, Amy Ryan, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, Titus Welliver, Amy Madigan
Directed By: Ben Affleck
Written By: Ben Affleck, Aaron Stockard
Released: 2007
Grade: A-

Gone Baby Gone is a very successful film adaptation of the novel by Dennis Lehane, which Ben Affleck says is his favorite novel. This is Ben Afflecks directorial debut in a major motion picture. His ability to take this material and transfer it with great conviction proves himself as a director and his passion of the material is shown. He also shows the Boston atmosphere accurately as he in addition to his brother, the star of the film, Casey Affleck, are both Boston born.

4-year old, Amanda McCready, has been kidnapped. The police, including Captain Jack Doyle (Freeman) are doing all they can to find her. Doyle has lost a daughter through a kidnapping as well that led to death. However, a few days after the investigation begins there are no real answers, Amanda’s aunt, Beatrice (Madigan) along with her hesitant husband, Lionel (Welliver) seek out private investigators, Patrick (Affleck) and his girlfriend, Angie (Monaghan) to help with the case. They are missing persons detectives, but they have never taken on a case this serious before. With every cop in the city looking for Amanda, Angie doubts whether they would be the ones to find her. Beatrice is persistent though, desperate to do anything she can to find her niece and Patrick agrees.

After talking with the mother, Helene (Ryan), they find out that she wasn’t exactly the model parent. She is an essential drug addict and she often took Amanda to the bar, including recently before she was abducted. Patrick and Angie begin questioning some of the people who were at this bar. He does have an edge since he isn’t a cop and therefore, perceived as one of the guys, making it easier to talk to these people. Not everyone sees him this way though. He begins working with Detective Remmy Besant (Harris). They have a suspect, Cheese, who is a local drug dealer. Patrcik says he knows he kidnapped Amanda and offers an exchange of money. He says no one ever has to know what he did. This doesn’t end well though. It takes more investigation and understanding for Patrick to realize that the guilty party may not be so far away, perhaps it is someone right in front of his very eyes.

Casey Affleck did a phenomenal job as Patrick. He does have a boyish quality to him, but that works well as at times he is perceived as young and inexperienced. By the end of the film, he has gone through so much and had to make so many life altering decisions that he loses a part of that innocence that he had. Even though, he wasn’t the main focus Morgan Freeman made for a very sympathetic cop. Even when you question his decisions and mind sets, you completely understand him. Amy Ryan was very convincing as the irresponsible mother of Amanda. There is definite questioning of whether she was deserving of Amanda. She had somewhat of a white trashy persona as someone in a rough neighborhood of Boston, overtaken by the fast life of drugs would when having a young daughter that she was responsible for. Ed Harris did a very good job as well. He had very many stages in the film and when you look at it all, he is very convincing in each one of these stages. It is not until you are able to see him at each point until his character is really clear.

One of the best things about Gone Baby Gone is that it always keeps you guessing. Some of this could be reflected on the novel, but either way it remains to be very refreshing. I would have expected for them to go through a number of struggles and then Amanda would be found. I don’t want to say anything else about the ending, but there were points where I thought it was over before it really was. If it would have ended there, I would have been surprised and it would have made an impression on me. Yet, things began to complicate even further. Situations became stickier and the right conclusion didn’t seem so clear. In the end it was very interesting and really kept your mind going.

A major theme through out the film but particularly towards the end was the moral questioning of what is right and what is wrong. I previously mentioned that Helene may not be the most suitable mother. Is it possible that Amanda may have been better off with a kidnapper? The role of the kidnapper here is complex as well. As the story progresses there is suggestion she was have been taken by someone who may have even known Amanda. It makes you more weary of who you trust. The other side of this role is that we perceive the kidnapper as evil and selfish. In some ways these traits are shown, but in a surprising way. On the other side, there is a kind and caring side that is shown. However, good intentioned, a kidnapper is still a kidnapper right? This exposes that the law may not always be the right thing. There is the question of whether you will abide by it or follow your own sense of right and wrong. Gone Baby Gone does this while still showing that an individual can believe that there are rights in both sides, just as there can be wrongs in the justices you attempt to enforce.

Review: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) [Reviewed By Clifford Kiyabu]

Directed by: Andrew Dominik
Written by: Andrew Dominik (screenplay) Ron Hansen (novel)
Genre: Biography / Drama / Western
MPAA: Rated R for some strong violence and brief sexual references.
Released: 21 September 2007
Starring: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Mary-Louise Parker, Brooklynn Proulx, Dustin Bollinger, Sam Rockwell, Jeremy Renner, Sam Shepard, Garret Dillahunt, Paul Schneider.

Plot: Robert Ford, who's idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.

Review: 9/10

My Thoughts: Jesse James, one of the most famous American outlaws is history, to some he was a cold hearted thieving killer, but to others he was known as a modern day robin hood of his time who stole from the rich and did good by is common man and was cowardly assassination by the hand of Robert Ford, but what about the man who killed him? Little is really known to public about him, other than the fact he killed a legend in the most cowardliness of way is the only thing we really remember or at least want to. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford takes a deep look into the man behind the gun, and shows us what kind of man Robert Ford really was, how he wanted to be a somebody in life, and respected by the James Younger gang, and his deep obsession of Jesse James that would soon become bitter resentment and eventually doing something he never thought he would ever do, but to say that would be getting ahead of myself.

The movie is emotionally charged, both Jesse James (Pitt) and his killer Robert Ford (Affleck) are so nicely done portrayed in this that it will make your heart go out to them, and even make you feel a little uneasy at times when you shouldn’t, but strongly enough it works brilliantly, for one thing the film takes off seven months before Jesse James is killed during their last ride as the James Younger Gang and showing Robert Ford first meeting Jesse and befriending him, but it also shows that not long after the gang splits Jesse falls into a deep frame of depression while also suffering from insomnia which slowly puts him into a state of paranoia with unpredictable mood swings, one minute he’s having a good old laugh with you and the other he’s got a knife to you’re throat, while it also shows how a young and bright man like Robert Ford so greatly wanting to be like his idle he ended up killing for it, but with such things also comes regret and for him regret would be something he’d live with for the rest of his life, or at least until his very own assignation of course, which he is forever remembered in history as a coward, this is clearly a message to how the news media spins the evince around to the public by making a simple outlaw a bright and pure hero which he will live on as a legend, and a good man who regrets what he did remembered as a shameful coward, ultimately it’s the antidote or the answer if you will to what comes to all cowboys after they ride into that big sunset, which is a sad story with a statement saying no happy ending to those who are remember, because after all would we even want to remember someone in history who had a happy ending? The answer is no, because none wants (Or at least admit it) to see others have a happy ending, and yet when you look at these sad stories of tragedy and unfortunate lose, it is also beautifully poetic in a way, I also must add that the cinematography was magnificent beautiful, well done if you ask me, and the score which I will say is greatly moving, it matches the film dead on with the same amount of power that equals to the films plot and performance, overall it is truly remarkable score that goes great with a remarkable film.

The story is about a young nineteen year old skittish man named Robert Ford who aims to be great, and during the last train robbery by none other than the James Younger Gang lead by Jesse and Frank James, Robert befriends Jesse and rides with his gang in hopes that he’ll gain fame, and after the last job the gang permanently disband, but soon after Jesse reforms a new gang with Robert and his brother Charley Ford, but as time goes by and Jesse showing signs of becoming somewhat violently unpredictable, Robert soon realizes he will never be nothing more than a lackey, or a joke to that of the great Jesse James, and what once was a harmless obsession, now is a bitterness that runs deep, and if he can’t get fame through being by Jesse side, he’ll kill for it.

Now as for the acting, I most say that Casey Affleck was fantastic as Robert Ford, making his character someone who is quite uneasy to watch and sometimes shy, plus I was shocked when I saw his performance because he has always stayed in the shadows of other actors in pretty much every film he’s been in, but he sure made a believer out of me while watching this, showing he has the determination, the skill, and most of all the heart to be Oscar worthy. As for Brad Pitt, the man can do no wrong, it seems that as an actor is somewhat like a fine wine who’s quality only gets better with age. As for actor Sam Shepard though his role in this film is incredibly short, he still pulled of a fantastic performance, and Paul Schneider, Garret Dillahunt, Sam Rockwell, Mary-Louise Parker just to name a few, all do great jobs in making this film wonderful, but to say only them made this film great would be an understatement, as the hole cast was truly a perfect cast down to the last man and woman.

Final Say: I really enjoyed watching this film much much more than I expected, but I most warn you that this movie is not for everyone, You ether really love it or really hate it, but I personally loved it greatly and I highly recommend it.

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