Review of Cake (2014) by Jim H — 25 Jul 2015
A victim of chronic back pain tries to connect with the widower of a suicide.
All the lauds about Jennifer Aniston's performance are well-deserved. She plays both the condition - her character's chronic pain - and the objective of the scene with almost expert technique. She's constantly in character, though the character mutes Aniston's personal comic charm.
The film, however, is a slogging monotony, a structureless, flimsy, rough-shod thing with characters suddenly popping with no narrative motivation and a story that sags and lags like an atrophied nursing home resident.
Overall, I could only wish that the Aniston's talents had been put to better use.
This review of Cake (2014) was written by Jim H on 25 Jul 2015.
Cake has generally received mixed reviews.
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