TV Guide Review:
I liked this review for the most part. I liked the fast forwarded version of his journey they wrote “on a two-year journey through the American West that will find him ditching his car after a flash flood, hanging out with hippies in the desert, paddling down the Colorado River to Mexico, hopping boxcars north and wandering into a homeless shelter in downtown Los Angeles. Before finding his ultimate refuge in an abandoned bus deep in the Alaskan wilderness”. I think this really stood out in the piece because it was easy to understand and follow. The part about this review I didn’t like was how there was little organization. Unless you have seen the move the organization of thoughts the author of this review wrote are hard to follow.
I’m thinking about doing more of a quick run through like the one that is in the paragraph above. I also like how while he was writing he would put the actors names in parenthesis next to their character names so you could get a feel for who was in the movie. This review came off more as an advertisement for this film. There wasn’t a very critical look into the cinematography and was no negatives shared about this film.
Paramount Vantage Review:
This is one of the worst reviews of a movie I have read in a long time. First of all its sub title is “bad end”. The ending was the climax of this whole movie. Second this guy teater totters more than anyone I’ve ever seen. And I think he is down right wrong about the way he characterizes the parents influence on Chris and how the parents interacted with each other. Then he rags on Chris’s survival skills. Saying it was what you would expect of a white collar city boy. He made an honest mistake and ate the wrong type of berry that look exactly the same. And then he later looses you completely in what hes talking about when he starts saying he was steps in front of the IRS? This man relates completely un-relevant things to this movie such as Dilbert…
There is absolutely nothing I will use from this tool’s attempt at a review. I don’t even know if he watched the whole movie….
USA TODAY:
Some things I don’t like about this review is that in some spots he assumes you have read the book. Also in some places he gives Sean Penn almost god like abilites as if he can manipulate the story. What I did like about this review is that it explains how Penn portrayed things and what he personally liked and didn’t like. There was more objectivity in this one. This one does not explain the plot as much as it opens the characters up to you. I would have liked to see more of a drawn out, play by play plot like in the TV guide review. I liked this review but not as much as the first one. I would like to combine qualities of this one with most of the qualities of the TV Guide’s review.