An average movie

After delivering his most popular movie so far (‘Good Will Hunting’), Gus Van Sant managed to deliver his least popular directing effort. Well, to be honest, I don’t think it was really so bad after all. I mean, obviously, when you watch this movie, you wonder if it was really necessary. But, then, you could say the same thing about 99.9% of the remakes out here. If you ever plan to watch the damned thing, my advise would be to just let it go and simply  give it a try. Anyway, even though it might sound surprising, I thought it was actually not bad at all. I have to admit it it, it probably did help that I hadn’t watch the original for ages but it is and remains a really entertaining and fascinating story. Of course, Vince Vaughn was not as impressive as Anthony Perkins was but I think he actually delivered a decent job. In this movie, however, the best actor was ultimately William H. Macy who gave a very good performance. Eventually, the only real flaw in my opinion was that you could figure out what was going with Norman Bates way too easily. Indeed, my wife actually never saw the original version but she figured it out after seeing Norman Bates for only 5 minutes on the screen. A part from that, the movie was actually rather enjoyable and even though I am obviously in the minority, I think it was a rather interesting experiment.