Review of The Cobbler (2014) by William P — 31 May 2016

The Cobbler is directed and written by Tom McCarthy, and it stars Adam Sandler in a magic dramedy about a cobbler who is tired of his boring life that is more or less the same, when his machine was broken, he found an old machine, and start repairing the shoes with it.

When he decides to try them on, he turns into another person that owns the shoes. Out of all the Adam Sandler films, this was the one that I was most worried about as it has a talented director and writer like Tom McCarthy, it has worst reviews than almost all of the Happy Madison Productions with Adam Sandler in it, and it was a huge box office bomb.

The good news about it is that in my opinion, The Cobbler is better than almost half of the films that has Adam Sandler in it, the bad news, however, is that it's not nearly as good as any of the director's films, it's definitely his worst film so far, and that it's frustratingly ok.

The acting is good, and there are some scenes in there that I thought were well done and were up there with the director's other films. The characters are decent at best, and Method Man gets some of the laughs in this film.

The problems that I have with the film are that the plot is all over the place as it has no idea about what it wants to be. Some of the humor fall flat, but then again, the movie was trying to be more serious than be funny.

It's not as interesting as the director's other films, and there are a lot of questions that weren't addressed, which also doesn't make sense. With a premise like this, The Cobbler could've worked given with a nice story, memorable characters, and a well written script, but the film only gives some of it and it was disappointing at best.