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Many years after Sam Mendes knocks us all out with the amazing American beauty, he tried again to bring us another story about a simple suburban family, only this time, he failed to bring anything interesting.
A story about a husband (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) and his wife (played by Kate Winslet) as they live in a suburban neighborhood, with a boring life and few friends, Frank have a boring job, and the wife suggest a change in life, which is traveling to Paris and leaving this life behind them, but Frank suggest postponing that change because his boss just offered him a new chance and his job might get better now, so you get to see them going back to their boring life as their dreams are destroyed and their ambitions lowered by their friends.
The story was so void and boring, the whole atmosphere didn't work, a couples living in the 50's and having some problems failed to make me feel anything, which is very sad because Leo brings one of his best performances ever, along side with an equally incredible performance by Kate, but because the story was so boring, i kept asking myself "should i feel something here", which is a question i should never have to ask myself if the story was engaging or somewhat interesting.
It's even sadder for me because Leonardo DiCaprio is my favorite actor, he makes every movie watchable, and he puts so much into any character he play, so i think it takes special talent from Sam Mendes to make a movie with both Leo and Kate not interesting, specially when those two are bringing over the top performances.
And not just the story wasn't working, everything other than the performances was wrong, the costumes, the screen play, the house, the neighborhood, the 50's theme, the production design, the entire look of the movie was void, they even managed to make all the actors look charmless and that's the greatest insult of all.
4/10
