Review of Broken Flowers (2005) by Jason K — 20 Oct 2012

I really dont understand just HOW this movie could be so bad, but to be blunt and jump right to the point...it was. First off I, like many I guess, was interested in seeing this one do to my utter love of Lost in Translation in which they made sure that they styled the previews the same.

From the opening I had some doubts after the first glance of the letter seemed like a interesting idea and slowy over the course of the next 5 minutes became a clear overplaying of everone who touched it to make sure that you could ALWAYS see the letter, which its freakin pink! I think you could tell where it was in a sea of white with a overplay of the fact.

Yes, this might be a trivial point- but it IS a point that sums up the whole movie, "even the objects in the bad had bad direction." Other than that it just went downhill- FAST! There are fadeouts in the closing of everyscene that serve only as a reminder to the audience that the writer couldnt really come up with a strong closing and chose the "blackout" button as his only choice and then made the decision "hey, why dont I just use that button ALL THE TIME.

" But maybe in looking back- it WAS a good idea to use the blackout button, because it saved us from watching anymore of the current scene that we were stuck in. Overall and to sum up the scenes I would have to say I thought it impossible to direct good actors to act poorly within the confines of a script, but this movie proved me wrong.

These scenes lacked any purpose for the viewer to come to any resolution or even understand WHY Bill signed onto this film. Not to metion the very very poor choice of direction each scene took on, the pointless nude teenager, the dry/lame jokes that the supporting characters where made to speak, the odd dream scenes which would have worked in a movie that was TOTALLY different then this one, and the dragging story.

In summary, I wouldnt tell anyone to view this movie for ANY reason whatso ever, not EVEN if you were a Bill fan!