Review of Rain Man (1988) by Stcenterprise . — 10 Feb 2012

Rain Man is very good. I think it's interesting how the title of the film came about. How Rain Man comes from Charlie; as a child, having difficulty saying Raymond.

Tom Cruise and Dustin Hofmann do an excellent job. Dustin Hoffman does an excellent job acting giving an accurate depiction of Raymond as autistic-savant. Tom Cruise roll is very well done is showing a character who goes from being selfish and only concerned with business aspect to a character who evolves over the film to be caring, compassionate and could care less about His own situation but instead is more concerned about his own family.

I thought it was interesting the aspect that although Raymond is the older brother and remembers so much that Charlie the younger brother now has to act as the older brother and in many aspects acts like the older brother to help take care of Raymond.

This film effectively has the audience feel for both characters and makes you feel for Raymond the unemotional character more that Charlie. The audience at all times has you feel emotions which you can relate to Charlie. The film ends in a sad way though since Raymond can not understand the emotional aspect.

I think my favorite part has to be the Los Vegas scenes just because it shows even though both are at a disadvantage as Charlie is not capable of counting cards like Raymond and Raymond is not able to have the mental capability to understand effectively how to play the game properly they are able to put both of their best and worst capabilities together to work side by side like brothers.

I think that Rain Man has to be one of Tom Cruises best roles ever since it has to be one role which Tom Cruise is not playing a jerk.

One thing which would have made the film better I believe would have been to not having the swearing that it did. I felt that it did not add to the film too much and I think that if it did not have all the swearing it would have had a wider audience. I believe that this is a film which should be shown to younger kids if it did not have all the swearing so that kids would understand not to pick on those who have disabilities and would show kids that just because they have disabilities does not make them stupid and shows that they do have capabilities and do know how to do things.