An average movie

Since this movie was directed by Edward Zwick and starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway, I was quite eager to check this flick. Eventually, I had some rather mixed feelings about the whole thing. Indeed, at first, they try to convince you that a movie about a pharmaceutical salesman would be or should be either really interesting or hilarious but it was actually neither. Fortunately, Jake Gyllenhaal was really charming and managed to add some interesting facets to his character, otherwise I would really have had a hard time to care about the whole thing. At some point, they brought Viagra in the plot and you would think it would stir up the story a little bit but, no, it didn’t really happen. Then, with a rather odd move, they added a girlfriend inflicted with Parkinson’s. The way they portrayed this infliction was rather well done but then, it belonged to another movie. So, on one hand, you had a comedy about a salesman, and on the other hand, a drama about a romance jeopardized by a major disease so the whole thing was rather uneven. Since my wife has been really sick for more than 18 months with almost no chance of full recovery, I guess I should have been more touched by Gyllenhaal’s predicament but I honestly had a hard time to care about the whole thing. Still, above all thanks to the decent performances by Gyllenhaal and Hattaway and in spite of its flaws, it remains after all a decent flick and it is worth a look.

6/10