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Stitch [ 7.5 ]
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Fun, entertaining time at the movies. Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts do have chemistry but it was hard to tell since they barely had any screen time together. Brad, Julia and James Gandolfini all provide good performances. Brad and Julia are lovers who love each other almost too much and definitely have issues (they are even in therapy). Brad is sent to Mexico on a "final job" for a gangster to collect an antique gun called "The Mexican". Julia is pissed that Brad is leaving and she takes off for Las Vegas on her own. On the way she is kidnaped by a thug, played by James Gandolfini. Brad, through unfortunate circumstance, becomes stranded in Mexico, without the gun. The history of the gun is told from many different accounts and in black and white, making the telling a separate little movie in itself. The ending worked for me and has a surprise cameo. The biggest problem though is that it runs just a bit too long. It is just over two hours long and you feel it. Still worth seeing though.
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JD [ 6.0 ]
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Strictly a star power movie with very little substance. This might as well be Kalifornia II. The acting truly is fine, the rest of the film including it's length is not.
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Edwards [ 1.0 ]
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Phenomenal. Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt, titans of movie stardom, do a vanity team project and it's this third-rate straight-to-video-worthy sub-comedy sub-quirky sub-romance. Back in the Golden Age when the kings and queens of celebrity joined forces, even if the result was subpar, it was at least a noble effort in principle. Their combined clout yielded at least a big budget, a reliable director, solid production values, and an easygoing viewing experience. Every one of those elements is absent in the curiously low-aiming creation we have here. Aside from Brad Pitt, who never fails to deliver, everything goes wrong. Julia Roberts, for whatever unbelievable reason, is extremely shrill and unpleasant as a screaming, bitchy wife whose first mistake is in hating Brad Pitt (because no one does, nor fairly can, hate this ever-endearing actor). She also embarks on what is ultimately the most arbitrary subplot in movie history, involving James Gandolfini as a likable-yet-dangerous hitman (way to ride the coattails of your fame there, Gandolfini. I'm sure all the praise he got for this movie has nothing to do with the fact that he's just playing a less evil, more huggable version of Tony Soprano). When their road trip together reaches its conclusion, you'll wonder why the hell it ever had to happen when we could have just tooled around with Brad Pitt in Mexico for the entire time. His adventures aren't interesting at all, however, so nobody wins
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| Weighted Rating | : 5.6 |
| No. Ratings | : 18 | |
| No. Reviews | : 6 | |
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