Movie Review: "Atonement"
I had no interest in seeing this movie. It sounded like it would be slightly scandalous and it has Kiera Knightley. Two strikes against it. But seeing as my other choices were movies from the 70s that no one has ever heard of or British tv crime dramas, I went with the real movie.
It started out okay. The scandalous part was actually important to the plot, but that doesn't mean I approve of it. Kiera Knightley annoyed me, but James McAvoy made it worth sitting through watching her. He was great. The storyline was somewhat predictable, but different enough to keep me interested.
But then! Then came one of the stupidest (and most abrupt) endings to a movie in all of chick-flickdom. Talk about a waste of 2 hours. Well, not a complete waste, because James McAvoy was very good (a wasted performance, sadly), but close.
I'd say skip it. (As would my co-worker, who also said it was stupid and that she felt like she was cheated.) It's not worth your time.
posted by melilotnfosco | 5:00 PM
11 Comments:
Thanks for the review! I've never seen this and could never decide if I actually wanted to. Weird that the ending was so awful - wasn't this a book first? Does the book have the same ending? I hate bad endings...a waste of time is exactly how I see it. Ugh.
Hey - I hope you have a good Sunday!
Thanks for the warning. I think I heard it got bad reviews, or maybe I heard it got good reviews from the wrong people (The Academy). ;) Anyway, I was thinking I probably didn't want to see it, but now I can know for sure. :) I hate it when they mess up the endings. It's like the most important part. Grr.
i hadn't heard too much about it other than what i saw when it was nominated for an academy award, but yeah, my choices were limited
oh, and thank you for your good sunday wish, mary :)
duly noted. Thank you!
Now I'm going to have to go find out what the bad ending was, becuase I'm like that! :)
How was your Sunday?
absolutely horrible (at work this time). but it was nice of mary to wish me a good one. :)
I'm with Kimberly...I want to know what the bad ending was!
Sorry your day at work was bad :-(. I hope everything goes well with your training tomorrow...
alright, *SPOILER ALERT!*
cecelia and robbie are friends/newly together. after various events take place her younger sister ends up accusing him of raping their cousin. he gets hauled off to prison and cecelia cuts herself off from her family for not defending him, leaving herself destitute. basically both lives ruined. cecelia becomes a nurse. robbie eventually enlists in the army because prisoners were given the option of prison or war. after training he's given a little time before going to france. they reunite, and then write to one another, all that 'when the war is over' stuff.
meanwhile, her sister becomes a nurse and tries to find cecelia in london to apologize for what she did. eventually she does find her, with robbie, and tries to say she's sorry, knowing that she ruined their lives and their chance for happiness. robbie can't forgive her, but is about to ship out. you wait for him to leave so you can see what cecelia has to say.
suddenly the movie stops and flashes to modern day where her sister is being interviewed. turns out the whole movie was a book, a lie her sister made up to try to make amends for the horrible thing she did to her sister and her sister's friend/boyfriend when they were younger. nothing after him getting hauled off to prison was true, and you don't really know how much of the stuff before hand was true, because it ended up that all the things that you saw between cecelia and robbie were either made up, or seen through the eyes of a then 12-year-old. she wrote the book so they could have a happily ever after. that was her atonement.
Well, how was THIS Sunday? Any better?
this sunday was much better, thank you :D
UHHHHHHH!!! (that is the sound I made as my mouth hung open for 4 1/2 minutes after reading your summary...my face is still unable to unfold from the puzzled expression...)
WHAT??? The whole movie never happened??? What??? That would tick me off! Thanks for the summary. Now I know I don't ever want to waste my time...
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