An average movie

Ever since I have seen ‘Exotica’, I have been a fan of Atom Egoyan and I have tried to follow his work ever since even though I didn’t watch many of his movies. Lately, Egoyan seems to be going through a difficult period creatively speaking since all his recent movies (‘The Captive’, ‘Devil’s Knot’ and ‘Chloe’) received some really poor reviews. Anyway, after ‘Exotica’, I have missed ‘The Sweet Hereafter’ which is quite a shame since it seems to be his best movie so far, but I manage to see his following effort which was very well received at the time. To be honest, even though I thought it was indeed a decent flick, I had a hard time to actually connect with the whole thing and I can’t say I was really blown away by this movie. I mean, Bob Hoskins was really good and probably gave one of his best performances of his career and Elaine Cassidy who played the title character did a good job as well but, I don’t know, somehow, I had a hard time to connect with these characters and what they were going through. To conclude, even though I thought it was slightly underwhelming, it remains intriguing and I think it is worth a look, especially if you are interested in Atom Egoyan’s work.

6/10