Review of Cake (2014) by Virginiaproud — 03 Apr 2015

Just a mediocre film. Aniston is working hard, too hard probably. The big issue in this movie is that character studies require a character we care about. No amount of convincing physicalisation, artificial scars and bad makeup are enough. Unfortunately that's all we are offered. Nothing about the accident, injury, or Aniston's situation is explored. Probably the writers though they were being edgier leaving it all unsaid and implied. Yeah, we can figure out what's happened here (unless you're really dense), but frankly, it's boring. I won't spoil the ending, but I could see it coming a mile off.

There are promising cameos from a multitude of familiar faces but they occupy the screen for mere moments and it's hard to know why they've bothered to say yes to this project which gives them so little to do.