Wednesday, March 10, 2004
Movie Review - "O" (2001)
Thoughts going in: Tim Blake Nelson rocks, not only as an actor, but as a director. I loved Eye of God, and thought The Grey Zone was well-made. He takes on Shakespeare here. Hopes are high.
Thoughts going out: Ugh. This reworking of Othello for the contemporary high school set really plodded along. Thanks to the Columbine tragedy, this film sat on the shelf at Miramax for two years, and perhaps it should have stayed there. Of course when Josh Hartnett has to carry the dramatic weight of the key role (Iago, contemporized to "Hugo"), you're already starting behind the eight ball. And Nelson's direction is nothing to write home about either; unlike Eye, which had an almost Egoyan-like feel, or Grey, which had a real air of versimilitude in showing a forgotten chapter of the Holocaust, there is nothing unique about his style in O.
Rating (1-100): 55.
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Thoughts going out: Ugh. This reworking of Othello for the contemporary high school set really plodded along. Thanks to the Columbine tragedy, this film sat on the shelf at Miramax for two years, and perhaps it should have stayed there. Of course when Josh Hartnett has to carry the dramatic weight of the key role (Iago, contemporized to "Hugo"), you're already starting behind the eight ball. And Nelson's direction is nothing to write home about either; unlike Eye, which had an almost Egoyan-like feel, or Grey, which had a real air of versimilitude in showing a forgotten chapter of the Holocaust, there is nothing unique about his style in O.
Rating (1-100): 55.
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