Rating: 6 out of 10, I wouldn’t watch a movie like this without the encouragement of my daughter. It was by the same director as The Cell and like that horrible Jennifer Lopez vehicle this one had truly stunning visuals. The cinematography and offbeat sets were unimaginably beautiful. However, like the earlier film this movie has a scatterbrained plot and a semi-unlikable cast. The story revolved around a 1920s hospital where a Hollywood stuntman is spiraling down into depression while getting to know a precocious six year old fellow patient. He tells her a story (the stunning visuals) that mirrors his and her lives. The biggest problem was that this young actress was just not up to the part and was almost unintelligible for most of the movie. You realize how good some of the other child actors are when you see one struggling this bad. Lee Pace is a very likable actor placed in a very unlikable part as the self-absorbed suicidal story teller. You keep waiting for the movie to take off but it never does – but boy is it beautiful.
MVP: Hostina as the Blue Bandit – very memorable
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