The Bucket List

I had to take time to write about this film. I didn't want my knee jerk anti-Jack / pro-Rob Reiner feelings color me. Well, first, I saw The Bucket List as a counter to Elah. Something lighter since Reiner said he wanted to really go for the comedy in this and not the sentimentality - and that's tough.

It short, it was a fun 97mins that could have been longer or shorter and better. It was entertaining, but like a really good HBO movie and not Grumpy Old Men like at all. Gorgeous to look at on the digital screens at the new Arclight in Sherman Oaks, but even the vistas were short changed. I found myself wondering how much of where they were was real, because it always was incidental to the conversation.

Morgan Freeman is, of course, the voice of God. Rob Reiner over used his voice overs too much in this. Way too much. Like it becomes confusing to the timeline (is he the narrator or is that the VO of what he is reading).

Light and entertaining, just confused and short changed. Seemed like a movie the studio couldn't say no to with that cast and crew, but didn't know what to do with, so they went safe.