Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Reservation Road
“Reservation Road” takes you down a dark and dreary path along with 2 families on a downward spiral after a tragic event. It has an all-star cast with Joaquin Phoenix, Jennifer Connelly, Mark Ruffalo, Mira Sorvina, and little Elle Fanning. They all do quality work here, but they can’t save this slow-paced, depressing movie. There are no sympathetic characters as anger, guilt, and bitterness begins to destroy the families. If Joaquin had watched “Death Sentence”, he would have never stopped his car at that gas station late at night. If this is supposed to be another one of those vigilante films, it is a poor one. The coincidences in this film are just too improbable. The film is too sad and unsatisfying to be entertaining. Sometimes, there is no justice.
Alien gives it 1 ½ “hit and run” stars out of 4.
“Reservation Road” takes you down a dark and dreary path along with 2 families on a downward spiral after a tragic event. It has an all-star cast with Joaquin Phoenix, Jennifer Connelly, Mark Ruffalo, Mira Sorvina, and little Elle Fanning. They all do quality work here, but they can’t save this slow-paced, depressing movie. There are no sympathetic characters as anger, guilt, and bitterness begins to destroy the families. If Joaquin had watched “Death Sentence”, he would have never stopped his car at that gas station late at night. If this is supposed to be another one of those vigilante films, it is a poor one. The coincidences in this film are just too improbable. The film is too sad and unsatisfying to be entertaining. Sometimes, there is no justice.
Alien gives it 1 ½ “hit and run” stars out of 4.
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