A good movie

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this movie but since I have a weak spot for Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Natalie Portman, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, eventually, even though not everything really worked in this movie, I thought that this Hesher character was pretty awesome and fascinating to behold. Indeed, it is not often that you get to see someone so chaotic, so random in his behavior and, normally, a character like this one would be rather cringe-inducing and annoying to behold but, somehow, it worked really fine here thanks above all to another really solid performance by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Unfortunately, even though Hesher himself was really neat, the rest of the movie didn’t really impress me. I mean, Devin Brochu and Rainn Wilson were not bad at all but their story was nothing really original and I had a rather hard time to care about what they were going through. And this was even worse with Natalie Portman whose character barely worked here. Indeed, it’s not that she was bad in this movie, it’s just that Hesher was already seriously random and they shouldn’t have brought up yet another girl in this story so randomly. Furthermore, I thought it was another pathetic attempt to make a really cute girl look supposedly plain and almost ugly. To conclude, in spite of its flaws, I still liked the damned thing though, just because Hesher was so interesting to behold and I think this guy by himself made the whole damned thing worth a look.