21 Grams

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21 Grams

Starring: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio Del Toro
Directed by: Alejandro Gonz?lez I??rritu
Binding: DVD
Published: 24 August, 2004

$11.24


Features:

  • Color
  • Closed-captioned
  • Widescreen
  • Dolby
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21 Grams

21 Grams

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.8 / 5.0

A weighty, but mysteriously draggy, melodrama:

If one sets the bar for a movie being "long" at two hours, more and more movies are moving into long territory. When a film is lengthy, it bears an extra responsibility to the audience to keep us interested throughout the running time. Certain films, like Mulholland Dr. and Fight Club, are so mesmerizing that the hours fly by. Other films, no matter how good they may be, feel every minute of their length, and perhaps more. 21 Grams is just such a film. Though it runs just a few minutes more than two hours,... more info

not bad:

good film. only criticisms are about the acting. naomi watts wasn't so convincing in some scenes, like in her reaction to the news that her family had been in an accident. i thought she was much better in muholland drive. penn also wasn't too convincing as a math prof. if you've ever known any math profs, you'll know what i mean! the other guy (forget his name, shame on me) was good. he looks perfect for the part. i liked the cinematography: dark and grainy.

"The Weight We Lose When We Die": Moving But Experimental:

You may not like the film itself, but you must admit the actors' talent -- Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio Del Toro are all fantastic. The story, meldrmatatic as it is, is not a problem. The real problem is, you may not be absorbed in the way it is told.

See the characters first. Christina (Naomi Watts) is a mother of two daughters, married to a loving husband. Tragic accident happens to them (that you will see soon), and Chris can be what she was any longer.

The accident was caused by one man Jack (Del... more info


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