Pieces of April Reviews

After a ridiculous 6 years, Katie Holmes decided to divorce Tom Cruise and you wonder if the damaged done to her career might ever be recovered. Indeed, before becoming a circus show with her now ex-husband Tom Cruise, I believe that Katie Holmes was one of the most promising actresses around and this movie was a fine example. Basically, it was just a small movie, on eof these typical quirky indie features, but I thought that the story was nice, the directing was decent and all actors involved, including Katie Holmes, gave some solid perfomances. Indeed, the issue with many movies in this genre is that, even though the characters are supposed to be funny and/or whimsical, they sometimes end up being rather obnoxious but it wasn't the case here. Concerning the director Peter Hedges, I thought it was a solid directing effort and, a few laters, he stept up his game with ‘Dan in Real Life’, a feature similar in tone but definitely more ambitious. Eventually, ‘Dan in Real Life’ was not bad either but I still preferred his first directing effort. Anyway, to conclude, even though it wasn’t really a masterpiece, I thought it was a decent watch and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

This movie was such an effort for me to watch, it was exhausting. A movie that is that exhausting to watch from beginning to end isn't worth it in my book and neither the acting, storyline or cinematography made up for it. What slightly did though was the ending. After such a chaotic exhausting story it had a nice ending but that was about it.