I have to admit this movie is special,
it's one of the very few romantic comedies that didn't annoy me too
much. But that really doesn't make this a good movie. Pat (Bradley
Cooper) is released from a mental institution and taken to his
parents house by his mother (Jacki Weaver). His father (Robert De
Niro) seems surprised they let his son out and on we go unwrapping
the past. The less you know the better your time passes watching it,
so I'll leave it to just that. Bradley Cooper didn't pass as the son
of Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver, he's missing the Italian aspect
of it quite heavily. And speaking of Robert De Niro, he does an
amazing performance in this one, despite that one tear filled Oscar
bait moment. But what the hell, he surely deserves the nomination and
it's not that often you can say that about his performances anymore.
And since pretty much everyone in the cast got an Oscar nomination,
I'll give out my opinion on them. Bradley Cooper's nomination I just
can't understand, he's rather bland throughout the movie and
certainly didn't give me any reason to believe he has some mental
problems. Jennifer Lawrence however was quite great as she usually
is, so the nomination there went to the right address. And finally
Jacki Weaver, her part was overshadowed by De Niro, but still she
managed to push through as a believable mother in middle of all that
madness, maybe not exactly Oscar worthy, but a fine performance none
the less.
The biggest problem with this movie was
the main character and how his illness is portrayed. It's all just
warm hearted fun. Just as an example the scene where Pat accidentaly
hits his mother while going through a mental episode, it's portayed
as a funny moment. All the while he's supposed to be a bipolar person
with anger management issues. I'd see that as a rather scary moment,
but no, it's made to be funny so it wouldn't go too deep into the
issue. So now the main character's illness is nothing more than a
funny gimmick. But as it's brought up so often I kind of lost
interest to it and thus to the whole character. The father was
actually the character I found most invested in, at least he seemed
like a real human being with real problems and emotions. Too bad he
was just a supporting character in this movie. And the weird thing is
that this movie tries to bring out the drama behind the comedy, so it
doesn't shy away from the drama alltogether, but really I think they
chose the wrong moments to bring out. In the end this was nothing
more than light and quite warm hearted entertainment, something that
kept me entertained through it but left me very little to go with.
56%
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