Sommersby Reviews

In my opinion, this movie is the perfect example what went/is wrong with Richard Gere’s career. Personally, I don’t think he is actually a bad actor, actually he can be pretty intense, but most of his movies focus on his heatthrob image which is a mistake, in my opinion. Indeed, it is fine to look at a good-looking actor or actress but, after 5 minutes, it gets very old and, eventually, it is what is going on with the character which is really interesting, not how good looking he or she is. Like I said before, this movie is a fine example. I mean, basically, it is a remake of a French movie starring Gérard Depardieu (a movie I haven’t seen, unfortunately) and, to be honest, even though it is based on some real events, it is a rather preposterous story which was rather difficult to buy. The fact that it is preposterous doesn’t need to mean that it would automatically be a failure but, since they unfortunately put the focus so much on how great looking he is instead of putting the focus on what is actually going on with this guy in his mind, it didn’t work out very well. To conclude, it is not really a bad movie and I think it is actually worth a look but I think it could have been much better than this.

This film has its moments but tries too hard to be epic. The premise is a little thin; that Laurel (Jodie Foster) would wilfully accept a stranger without saying anything or else forget what her husband was like. It was important for her to have a man in her life, back then it was almost mandatory, but Orin was at heart a good man who loved her. If you can look past that, it's an ok date-night film - but make sure there's some nice wine on hand for the silly bits.