Review of The Air I Breathe (2007) by David D — 11 Nov 2009

"The Air I Breathe" is based on the four emotional cornerstones; happiness, pleasure, sorrow and love. Four stories are crossed and the outcome has different directions. A businessman (Forest Whitaker) has lost the meaning of his life and he literally bets it on a fixed racehorse. A gangster (Brendan Fraser) has the gift of seeing the future, but one day that suddenly changes. A popstar (Sarah Michelle Gellar finds herself in the hands of a brutal crime boss, Fingers (Andy Garcia), and her career becomes something she hardly expected. And a doctor (Kevin Bacon) needs to save the love of his life before she dies from a snakebite.

Hmmm... so yet another dramatic take on a few life stories crossing paths. We have seen a few on the screens since "Short Cuts" and some of them have been really good, like "Crash" and "Magnolia". "The Air I Breathe" is not bad, but I think it is a bit messy in terms of how the stories intersect. Some performances are better (Garcia, Whitaker, Bacon) than other (Gellar, Fraser) and that creates a bit of an unbalance as well in the movie. A three in the middle from me.