Pros: Kevin Spacey Cons: Takes itself too seriously, relies on too many coincidences
Pay it Forward (2000) I watched Pay it Forward on DVD and at first began to be drawn in but the movie's tone changed and I began to lose interest and may even have drifted off to sleep. No matter, I started back over and ...
Pros: Kevin Spacey and Haley Joel Osment give wonderful performances. Cons: Helen Hunt - ugh - what a mismatch in character and actor!
Preamble
This was a movie I wanted to see in the theater however, I just never got around to it. I had the opportunity to view it this weekend and although there were parts that were "nice", I was overall, disappointed in the film. Maybe it...
Pros: great acting, story has dark undertones an not a fairy-tale, good pacing Cons: dark tone and grittier side of life won't appeal to those looking for the fairy-tale
It may be somewhat idealistic to think that one person can change the world. In today’s “greed is good” society, it’s often seen as a character weakness to demonstrate compassion and empathy for our fellow humans who might not be as ...
Pros: Excellent performances by Spacey and Osmet, interesting story and social study Cons: Ignores some important questions in trying to answer others
Before I finish this review I just know I'm going to run out of superlatives. This film is astonishing, breathtaking, incredible, outstanding, and then some. The film centres around Trevor McKinney, (superbly played by Haley Joel Osment), his mother A ...
Pros: Helping people is good. Cons: Pep talks about helping people are stupid.
In February of 2003, I was driving along with my little tape recorder, doin' the whole audio journal thing. I was trying to think of what movies came out that day, when suddenly I burst into laughter and said "Oh yeah, The Life Of David ...
Pros: inspiring, Osment's performance Cons: some scenes so painful they're difficult to watch
"Think of a plan to change the world – and put it into ACTION." This is the challenge that seventh-grade history teacher Eugene Simonet (Kevin Spacey) issues to his students on the first day of class. A seemingly unattainable goal for a room...
Pros: Martyrs are annoying. Cons: They never get killed quickly enough.
Pay It Forward is an extremely sinister movie masquerading as uplift, a movie that takes its viewers for idiots likely to be dumbfounded by such arcane words as 'pertinent.' It features Kevin Spacey as Eugene Simonet, a seventh grade social...
Pros: thought-provoking message, and spellbounding cast Cons: None
Couldn't we all benefit from an act of kindness by another human being? Maybe that's part of what's wrong with today's society. We are all in such a hurry for me-me-me! Heck, we've got road rage and the craziness of other drivers to prove that...
Pros: All viewers in the theatre were touched by this movie. Cons: It had a Sad sort of Love/Hate ending.
I would like to talk about how "Pay It Forward" made me feel as well as the variety of people that were in the theatre. I am not going to reveal much about this movie as I feel that it would take away from your viewing pleasure as well as the...
Pros: Spacey is always worth watching. Cons: He usually picks his scripts with more sense.
It's too bad that a handful of great acting performances can't save a movie from being this disappointing. As always, Kevin Spacey is simply a force of nature, and Helen Hunt gives a brave performance as a single mother just this close to being white...
Pros: An Oscar-worthy cast helps cut through the cheese factor Cons: Shamelessly manipulative (but you've got to admire a movie that makes no bones about going for the tear ducts)
Pay it Forward is a movie full of hope. It hopes you’ll cry. It hopes you’ll be spurred by its civic message to go out and do good unto others. It hopes you won’t notice it’s really nothing more than a big-budget, big-screen episode of...
Pros: Superb cast, great story telling Cons: Jon Bon Jovi
Having seen the trailers for this movie I feared I had possibly seen the best of it. The simple, yet beautiful idea of doing big favors for three other people and having them pass that idea forward, seemed like an excellent short story, but how on earth...
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