Reign Over Me
Saw the new Don Cheadle/Adam Sandler movie last night, Reign Over Me. Wasn't half bad. Cheadle is, as expected, fairly great and Sandler does solid work. Its a pretty sad movie mixed in with some truly funny bits, certainly worth seeing. Two things that stood out though:
1) the music throughout the movie is pretty great and the Pearl Jam cover of The Who's Love Reign Over Me is next on my downloading list and
2) there are times in the movie when Sandler is doing his little weird "depressed/weirdo" voice in a manner which is supposed to sound serious but sounds EXACTLY like the voice he uses in Happy Gilmore/Billy Madison. This totally hampers serious parts of the movie. Its not Sandler's fault he brings those other, drastically less serious movies, to mind but he's got to be aware that his weird "non-normal" voice needs to be a little different from movie to movie.
Also, and I haven't thought about this extensively so I'll just through it out there, its kind of weird how 9/11 is used in the plot. Its used more as a plot device rather then a focus of the movie. Charlie Fineman, Sandler's character, loses his family in the 9/11 attacks but they just as easily could have been killed in some other tragic incident. Its almost as if the director/writer decided that since this movie is set in New York City that 9/11 would be the logical tie in. Again I haven't thought about this enough but I thought I'd mention it.
Here's what Rotten Tomatoes has to say about the movie (its not very positive) and, as always, here's a link to my movie review section featured right here on this very own site.
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