(NOTE – This review is only my OPINION. Take it for what’s it’s worth. Everyone has different tastes)
I want to preface this review with some simple self-analysis. My genetic make-up has predestined me to being a man. Yup, I’m a guy. And being a “guy”, I tend to enjoy more guy-type movies, but I am a sensitive “guy” can appreciate a good movie no matter what genre… even the occasional chick-flick/romantic comedy. With that said…
Last night, Crystal and I went to see Revolutionary Road. We received free passes from Scott over at wearemoviegeeks.com to the sneak preview at the Des Peres theater.
Scott and wearemoviegeeks.com are awesome!. The movie, however, wasn’t.
Revolutionary Road is based on a novel that I haven’t read, so I’m not going to make comparisons to the book since I haven’t read it, but based on the movie, I don’t think I’m going to run to Barnes & Noble tonight to buy a copy. The story revolved around a young couple who become disillusioned in the hum-drum “average” lives and yearn for changes.
That’s it.
Not a single car chase. No aliens threatening earths existence. No monsters devouring tourists in Japan. No adrenalin pumping gun battles. Nothing to interest a “guy” like me. Right up Crys’s alley? Nope. She was bored to tears also.
Leo D’s performance was pretty good, and I’m not even a real Decaprio fan. But Kate Winslet’s performance was wooden and mechanical when she wasn’t doing a heavily emotional scene. Many of her line deliveries made me feel like an I was watching an eighth graders performance. Even the love-making scenes were unsatisfying (for everyone on screen and off).
There were a couple of bright moments in the film that made me sit up in my seat instead of scrunching down into a movie-theater-sleeping-position. Michael Shannon’s performance of the insane son of the couples realtor was entertaining and fun. For a moment, I forgot I wanted to pull my brain out through my eye-sockets with a pair of rusty pliers.
Then his two scenes were done and I remembered where I was… and I contemplated suicide. After this experience, I’m going to stick to my guy movies with exlosions, space ships, and gun-blazing car chases.
I think I might have come to the reason I didn’t care for Revolutionary Road. I like to have fun. I am a fun person, and really enjoy doing fun things adn watching fun movies. The story in this movie is not meant be fun. It is meant to be a look into the souls of semi-realistic people and to portay their feelings and emotions. It’s not a “guy” movie.
Crystal isn’t a “guy” however, and she wasn’t enchanted by this movie either. We both give this movie a thumbs down. Now, to pop in my DVD of Caddyshack and get back to good, old-fashioned escapism fun!
