Matchstick Men

SEPTEMBER 14, 2003

Man, this movie was boring. Although the character that Nicholas Cage played was theoretically entertaining and worth watching, it instead became about watching him try to pull it off. His character has OCD and Cage seems to struggle with it. There were probably 25 potentially humorous moments and the audience laughed at maybe five (except for this horribly annoying lady behind me, who laughed at everything). Because of this, I didn't really feel for his character, which made the movie boring. Oh, Alison Lohman was also overacting. Sam Rockwell was easily the best of the lead cast but you didn't see much of him.

The story was fairly derivative, but most films are these days. The cinematography had its moments, but was nothing special. In other words, this movie was just there. It didn't really do anything new or special. Even the twist ending was not at all surprising. It's just been done before. Again, the only real bright spot in this movie is Sam Rockwell.

There is no need to see this movie.

Posted in Film at 9:52 pm.