The Air I Breathe
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Movie Reviews of The Air I Breathe
Movie Review: Butterfly Effected
Summary: 3 Stars
Butterfly Effected
Intelligent film, good direction, mediocre casting and pretty good acting. So why not more than three stars? I think this film gains a lot of ground on account of good performances,but it tries to incorporate too much and so the actors always seem so new. The characters never grew on me. Infact, maybe the film could have been longer and some people who were terribly miscast like a character called Fingers could have been done differently. There is nothing truly overwhelming about the film. The story is great and the book must be a must read we'll never read.
Brendon Fraser. It's been long since I saw him in a film. He did a pretty good job but I'm so used to him being the moral hero that his Terminator'ish performance semmed slightly politely out of place. Andy Garcia should not have been a part of this film. He looks uncomfortable to this cynic from the very first scene. Emile Hirsch, the guy from the excellent *INTO THE WILD* is a part of this film too. He has a small role but he was ok with a very bad haircut.
The film didn't lack a message. The film had too many messages and it all seemed a bit rushed. The last scene will make a lot of youngsters smile while people worked up from their hard worked weekdays will wear a middle school frown.
AIR I BREATHE is well worthy of being viewed. Atleast once.
Movie Review: Not perfect, but not bad
Summary: 3 Stars
'The Air I Breathe' is not a great film, but it has been pieced together with some skill and the script has been written with an attempt at a degree of originality. It also has the advantage of a skilled and likeable cast of actors. I have no qualms in saying my opinions are always at least partly subjective. I am influenced by numerous factors that will often make me biased in support of particular films. In this case, I consider myself to be a fan of the work of the actress Sarah Michelle Gellar and I am likely to look upon films she appears in more favourably than I perhaps otherwise would do.
Is 'The Air I Breathe' any good? It is not the best film I have ever seen, but it certainly isn't the worst - by any means. I have given this film three stars. Deduct half a star to allow for my likely bias and two-and-a-half out of five is probably not unreasonable. Is it enough? I think it's good enough to make it watchable and that is more than I can say for many far more expensive and highly marketed films.
Movie Review: Interesting Movie, Quirky & Artsy......
Summary: 3 Stars
But still reminiscent of other movies like Crash, Magnolia, & Traffic. This movie contains an all star cast of well-know actors, whom play vastly different characters. Each main character's life is uniquely intertwined and it isn't until the end of the movie that we see the complete picture of how and where their lives intersect.
The movie plays out in four vignettes that make up the entire movie as a whole. Each major character we see portrays one of the following emotions of sorrow, happiness, pleasure & love in this film, which makes for a novel viewing of this movie... Overall acting is good with the exception of Brendan Fraser.... For whatever reason he doesn't seem credible in his role in this film.
Movie Review: great actors
Summary: 3 Stars
i watched this film mainly for the actors sarah michelle gellar,kevin bacon,brendan fraser, have to say it was a very weird story line 4 different story going at the same time and then they all link together,i think i would of liked to have seen moreMovie Review: "Crash"-Derived Parable Layers the Contrivances Pretty Thick Despite a Committed Cast
Summary: 2 Stars
Put simply, this ponderous and uneasy melding of noirish crime melodrama and nihilistic character study is for the audience who really loved the allegorical minefield that was Crash. This 2008 movie actually makes the interconnecting contrivances of the 2005 omnibus film seem all the more plausible with an overstuffed storyline that hinges on an ancient Chinese proverb that breaks life down into four emotional cornerstones - happiness, pleasure, sorrow, and love. The irony of the filmic treatment by Korean-American director/co-writer Jieho Lee is that he takes the proverb literally by having the four principal actors represent the emotions individually. Cheekily, Lee gives none of their characters real names (though one has a stage name) and then has them intersect to show how the emotions co-exist and make up the whole of the human experience. The problem is that Lee is so caught up in his concept that the resulting screenplay (co-written with Bob DeRosa) feels like it's in a constant spin cycle of increasingly preposterous situations, all for the sake of illustrating how their paths are inextricably linked to each other.
Lacking the confident finesse of obvious role model Robert Altman (think Nashville or Short Cuts as comparative works), Lee goes so far as subdividing the movie into four discrete chapters. In "Happiness", Forest Whitaker (his follow-up to The Last King of Scotland) plays a self-defeated money manager who bets his life savings on a fixed horse race only to find himself indebted to a vicious Mob boss named Fingers (seriously). An unusually glum-faced Brendan Fraser is "Pleasure" playing a clairvoyant (again seriously), tough-acting money collector charged with babysitting Fingers' obnoxious nephew Tony. Sarah Michelle Gellar plays "Sorrow", a Lindsay Lohan-type, alcohol-fueled pop star known to her fans as Trista, a name derived from the Latin word for "sad". Her contract is sold by her desperately smarmy manager to - you guessed it - Fingers. The final chapter has Kevin Bacon playing "Love" as a doctor who still holds a torch for Gina, a herpetologist married to his shallow best friend, a plastic surgeon naturally. A predictable, race-against-the-clock tragedy then occurs. There is no point in discussing the common points of intersection other than to say that Lee's everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach does not hold up remotely to the light of credibility when you look, for example, at the convolutions that a character like "Sorrow" goes through. Your eyebrows will be severely exercised by the last ten minutes.
The cast is all over the map here, but the four principal actors - Whitaker, Bacon, Fraser and a surprisingly sturdy Gellar - are all relatively effective. In particular, Fraser's clamped-down turn shows a heretofore hidden talent for Guy Ritchie-type movies. It would have also been nice to see some evidence of Gellar's pop-star appeal other than her character's tabloid-friendly behavior. As Fingers, Andy Garcia seems to be playing the same despicable role he has been playing in Ocean's Eleven and any number of mob-related movies. Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild) is appropriately irritating as Tony, while Julie Delpy (Two Days in Paris) is given little to do as Gina except look faintly forlorn. Ultimately, it really comes down to the actors in terms of making this a salvageable film-watching experience. It certainly isn't Lee's overly familiar, Tarantino-style filmmaking techniques (...in fact, I think there are more car crashes and near-crashes here than in "Crash"). The 2008 DVD features a robust commentary track from Lee, DeRosa, cinematographer Walt Lloyd and editor Robert Hoffman - worth a listen if only to understand the good intentions behind the production. Four minutes of deleted scenes, understandably excised, and two minutes of outtakes, none of it amusing, are also included.