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Life Less Ordinary (1997)
6/10
Starring
Ewan
McGregor
Cameron
Diaz
Holly
hunter
Delroy
Lindo
Directed
by Danny Boyle
Do
you want to see a movie go to shit in the last moment?
Are
you dying to watch a movie grow on you and in the last minute
everything gets taken from you?
Then
you do not have to look far than this movie I enjoy seeing, but try
my best to skip the ending. Everything would have been perfect if the
writers just thought it through for a second, how can a hole in the
heart be the one thing missing from this movie?
The
movie was not well received when it was released and you can
understand why, the plot is flimsy, the actors seem overly invested
and the ending of this movie is rotten. Yet for me, I get to watch
this movie often, because sometimes just some plain love story can be
heartwarming.
The
movie plot is about two people Robert (Ewan McGregor) and Celine
(Cameron Diaz). In heaven there is a department whose job is make
sure two people who are destined for each other get to be together.
Problem is with the growing trend of divorce and splitting up the
department success rate is dwindling (and God, I guess is coming down
hard on them).
Two
angels O'Reilly (Holly Hunter) and Jackson (Delroy Lindo) were
assigned to our two leads and we soon get to meet them. Robert is a
janitor in a company and was fired to be replaced by a machine.
Celine is the daughter of the millionaire that owns that company and
she is bored and going through boyfriends like clothes because she is
unable to find the perfect fit.
Robert
fed up with being treated like crap and being overlooked, decided to
break back into the office during working hours and demand his job
back from Celine’s dad. On that faithful day Celine was in the
office and she is also having a word with her father concerning
settling down and stating a family.
Robert
breaks into the father and daughter conversation to start shouting
and before he could get a sentence in, the security jumps him.
He
managed to get a hold of one of their guns when Celine seeing the gun
on the floor close to her, kicks it to Robert. He gets up and takes
her hostage.
Since
this was not his initial plan, he didn’t know what to do and Celine
who just wanted to be away from her father assisted him in getting
herself kidnapped.
The
two now must find a way to get money from her father, while being
chased by two angels masquerading as hired guns sent by her father to
kill Robert and retrieve Celine. The angels on the other hand were
hoping to use the present conflict to bring the two together.
Like
I have addressed the movie’s tale has me hooked to seeing how
things were going to unfold between these two parties. But in the end
when all the writers had to do was find a way for the couple to get
away with their lives, we had to see a love miracle. The miracle was
delivered in such a mess and meant absolutely nothing, that can make
you hate everything that led to it.
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