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Release Date: 03 February, 2004 Retail Price: $9.98 OUR Price: $9.98 You SAVE: $0.00! Cast: Complete Cast (14 total) |
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Calling this movie odd is understating it quite a bit
While I enjoyed watching every actor in this movie, I have to admit that this whole thing is a mess. The plot is completely unnecessary and has the texture of something they made up as they went along and then added just a bit more confusion in the editing. However, in some odd way, I wanted to keep watching in spite of the frustrating nonsense of the story.
Robert Lewis (Ewan McGregor) is a janitor who is pushed over the edge by a powerful and sadistically cruel boss (Ian Holm). In an act of criminal stupidity, he threatens the boss with a gun in order to get his job back (yeah, right) and then ends up kidnapping his daughter, Celine (Cameron Diaz). Tied into this are two, well, angels, who are assigned to get Robert and Celine to fall in love. Two more unlikely characters for a love story have seldom been put on screen, but the plot needs it, so we go with it, kinda. The angels are somehow made mortal, kinda, and are played by Holly Hunter and Delroy Lindo. These feckless but devoted angels are so odd that they become almost the centerpiece of the movie.
There are a great many oddballs in this movie and some wonderful little bits as Robert proves how incompetent he is as a kidnapper. Celine is better at it because she was kidnapped when she was twelve. She calls on this experience to help Robert try and extract money from Daddy.
You know that Robert and Celine will end up together in the end, but you cannot fathom the strange plot devices and twists, totally unnecessary, they take to get there.
Is it a necessary movie? Absolutely not. Is it a good movie? Not really. Is it fun? Kinda. Once you start watching it, do you want to see what happens next? Yes.
Enjoy it if you can.
Serendipity
One of the most pleasant experiences in life, if you are a fan of movies, is to run across a film you cannot categorize, yet enjoy immensely, in fact all the more, for this quirk. Such a flick is "A Life Less Ordinary." The first time I saw it, I couldn't decide if I loved it or hated it. The second time I fell in love with it. The more times I see it, the more head over heels I become. Like the film itself, I would have to term this serendipity. Oh, that Hollywood, and everywhere films are made, would make more films that leave a smile on my face and wonderment at the serendipitousness (how's that for a word?) of life itself. How clever is God and His angels in their execution of imagination. Bravo!
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