Life or Something Like It (2002)

Beautiful, moving film.

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

It's about a self-absorbed, egocentric TV host who have a life-changing meeting with the occult.Unfortunately, i'm not writing the review of "Groundhof Day" (already reviewed) but of this crap.I don't know if this degeneracy of a classic tale tells a lot of the evolution of our society but the viewing has been a real hardship for me.It starts with the actual iconic choice for a posh life of the upper class (a penthouse for accommodation, a baseball star for boyfriend) but really who cares? Then, you got some really stupid behaviors: as a gift for the prophet hobo, she brings wine: this is what Hollywood thinks the hobos needs? As her boyfriend notices her despair by having her glasses, his advice is to have laser surgery: great, what about a tour in Africa for him! I don't forget the horrendous clichés: Angie has a boyfriend but only the fear of dying makes her realize they don't talk! The philosophical wisdom she learns from the revelation is to flirt with her colleague who is for sure a divorced husband with a kid, thus Angie can be a mother without birth! The basic of storytelling is forgotten: if it's about dying in 8 days, you put captions to the countdown (Day 1, 2..). Here's it's not done and it's very difficult to follow the timeline.At last, having seen more movies from newcomers (Hilary, Natalie), i know realize that Angie is an overrated actress and has the same career as her father: a handful of great roles but a lot of craps.

The movie feels totally pointless because of the reason that never ever gets developed well in the movie. Her relation with the baseball player, the relationship between the two sisters and their father, the story of the Edward Burns' character and his son...everything is so heavily underdeveloped. It's the reason why the movie makes a totally redundant- and also leaves an unsatisfying impression.And if this is a comedy than were is the humor? For a comedy this movie surely has an awful few laughs in it. Basically in essence the Tony Shalhoub character is the only one that shows comedy potential but his character gets hardly used in the movie. There aren't really any comical moments or situations in the movie, though the movie still has a good pleasant and light overall atmosphere.The cast and acting in the movie is good, so the movie is obviously a waste of the talent involved. Angelina Jolie shows how a great actress she is, even with platinum blond hair. Nevertheless it's a real shame that her character and the Edward Burns have no chemistry at all. Come to think of it, none of the characters in this movie really have any chemistry with each other. So it's a good cast, that was just wrongfully cast and put together in this movie.Not sure what the movie tries to achieve; if it wants to parody anything, or if it wants to bring over a message about morals and life (probably the latter one). Anyway, fact is that the movie simply does not work out due to some bad storytelling and development and the characters that share absolutely no chemistry.Stephen Herek has never been known as a brilliant director but he has always made some decent movies, such as "101 Dalmatians", "The Three Musketeers" and "Mr. Holland's Opus". This movie is however an huge miss from him.Really can't think of any reason why anyone should ever watch this movie.4/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

This film had a little bit of everything all rolled into one story and it was entertaining. Angelina Jolie,(Lanie Kerrigan) was a news reporter and gets involved with a homeless man that she interviews and this man predicts without any hesitation on his part, that Lanie is going to die on a Thursday, a week away. There are other details about the weather conditions and most of his predictions seem to come true. Lanie has lots of trouble getting along with her camera man on the job and they fight like cats and dogs. Lanie is looking for a better position in the TV industry and has her goals set very high, and at the same time wants to meet Mr. Right. There are very cute romantic scenes and Lanie has great conversations with her girl friends. However, Lanie begins to look at herself as a person other people see and she starts looking in other directions. Nice entertaining film.

This is a fun film, and is headed toward a logical surprise ending that I have to think someone somewhere forced a new ending on it. This is not really a spoiler, because it didn't end this way, but here's the way it should have ended:They make such a big deal through the whole film about Lanie's fake blond hair, and when she is told she is going to die and discovers more about her real self, she starts primping and washing it less. Near the end she has discovered how to be happy with her real self, except that she still has the threat of death hanging over her head. The logical conclusion of the film is that she dyes her hair to bring it back to her natural color. She fulfils the prophecy ("In three days you will die/dye") and becomes a fuller, more real person. Instead they have a cop-out ending.