A good movie

Since I kept hearing good things about this flick and since I´m a big fan of Robert Altman, I really wanted to watch this movie. Unfortunately, I thought it was a little bit disappointing though. Basically, it is one of those hyperlink features which means there are multiple & parallel story lines interacting with each others. Altman was an expert at this genre and this movie is considered as one of his many masterpieces. And indeed, all the actors involved were pretty good and the music was alright but there was no plot whatsoever (which is something that never really bothers me and it didn’t bother here either). The main issue is that I never really cared about the characters involved and what was happening to them. The thing with hyperlink features is that, usually at the end, there is a rather far-fetched climax where all the storylines collide together. Here, Robert Altman didn’t even bother and the whole thing remained really really loose from the beginning until the end. Still, the whole thing was very well directed and the actors gave some compelling performances. Eventually, even though I wasn´t blown away by the whole thing, I still liked it and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in Robert Altman´s work.

7/10