I’ve gotta say, I didn’t like the movie at all.  I mean, it did evoke emotion, and in some ways you could relate (but isn’t that how Hollywood makes their money?  Exploiting emotions?) but it was all pretty cheap.  The plot was pretty good, but the writing wasn’t airtight at all.

For one thing, the daughter believed the mom right off the bat.  She was a grown woman in the 21st century.  You’d think she’d be a little smarter.  She believed it right there and then.  Didn’t think to Google, or ask the people in the hospital, people who just happen to be doctors.  That’s not realistic at all.  It was hurricane Katrina time, so she lived in a pretty modern world.

Also, save for when he was a kid in an old man’s body, he pretty much didn’t act his age.  Rather, he acted how old he looked like.  Oh, and remember that time in the brothel?  I mean, sure he’s got a young man’s enthusiasm, but I don’t think the body of an 80 year old can keep up with a young hooker, over and over again.  It just didn’t make sense.  He had a hard time walking when he was aged young because of his older body’s problems.  Dyou get where I’m going?

Overall, it was a lousy movie for me.  Sure, I would’ve watched at home, on my flat screen on the plasma stand, but in the moviehouse?  No way.

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