True life story about a narcotics cop dealing with the fact his daughter is an addict. The film follows the pair's journey to the founding of a place to help people get clean.
Zach Braff's on target performance as a cop is the best thing in this wildly uneven even film. Swinging from bad cliche to deeply moving, often from moment to moment, this film is the ver definition of all over the place. Braff's sterling performance often has to interact with actors who seem to have wandered in from another film. The script mixes real moments with WTF ones as if the writer was working on a solid scsene but suddenly had to rush and cribbed dialog and plotting from a bad TV series from the 70's.
Its facinating to watch but at the same time it isn't very good.
I heard a couple of people say Braff was so good they thought he could end up in the Oscar mix, to which they added that it would never happen because the rest of the film will weigh him down.
While I am super critical, a number of people at the P&I screening were less so and thought it was okay on it's own terms.
The choice to see it is yours.
No comments:
Post a Comment