Review of Sordid Lives (2000) by Brian M — 26 Sep 2010

I am beginning to wonder if Hollywood is running out of ideas for movies, where they will just jump on anything, and make a movie about it. There are just way too many people in this movie, with way too many problems, that some of it just seems like and old man rambling about the past, who can't stay on one subject for more than five minutes.

There are a lot of interesting charactors that do make the movie interesting, Such as the gay son and the mother who would rather not talk about his life. The smoker, who seems to be the only sane person in the movie. There is nice interaction between the sisters, while some charactors seemed un-necessary such as Olivia Newton John. Who seemed to be there all through the movie, just to throw in a song.

But, the most fun and interesting, had to be the old drag queen in the mental hospital, and his shrink. I don't know, but, I think the actress who played the shrink was crazier than anyone in the movie...almost to the point of having a gay man have sex with her, just so she can prove a point.

There was a lot of babbling in the movie that took up way too much time, and the whole gun toting drunken sisters, just distracted me, and confused me, as to what the creator of this movie had in mind by throwing that in.

The final scenes of the movie were decent. But, I think a lot of the movie was just hard to follow. But, I was kind of glad that there was at least a happy ending for some. And, there was some decent acting, but as a whole...it was just weird. Like someone got ahold of someones diary, and passed it around to several people to create a story, only a lot was missing.