A disappointing movie

Ever since this movie was released, I was really dying to watch it. Indeed, David Fincher is one of the best directors at work nowadays, it was a success at the box-office and acclaimed by the critics (except by Roger Ebert which should have been a warning to me). I missed it when it was released and eventually bought it on DVD, expecting to watch a modern masterpiece but guess what? I thought it was eventually rather disappointing. I mean, it was not a bad movie, not at all, it was actually pretty good, it looked gorgeous but what was eventually the point of all this ?!? Basically, the movie starts with a guy born old who is growing younger and... that's about it! During 3 hours, there was not much discussion about the implications of this predicament, about his feelings and his thoughts or the feelings and thoughts of the people around him and, as a result, I thought it was rather underwhelming. I'm not saying that they should have explained how he happened to be that way but, in my opinion, there was definitely something missing. Basically, the whole movie was based on this gimmick, on the fact that the character grows younger but, in my case, that wasn't enough. Furthermore, I think some of it was rather phony (indeed, the way he left his wife and kid and was actually completely unnecessary. I mean, how many man or woman with a disability or a handicap ends up having children, should they also run away then? If the child grew up with this father, she would have gotten used to the fact that he was different because she wouldn't have known anything better. Your father could be a midget, albino, black, gay, blind, one-legged, it never matters whatsoever). Eventually, the biggest problem with this movie might have been the fact that I was never really convinced that Benjamin Button's predicament was such an awful curse. Indeed, in our world, obsessed with eternal youth and plastic surgery, don't you think that a lot of people would give everything they have to be in his positon? Anyway, to conclude, in my opinion, even though it remains a decent watch, it still belongs to the overrated work made by Fincher but, in spite of it flaws,  it is still worth a look, especially if you are interested in this director.

7/10