This is a film you should not go to see if you want a happy ending. As a matter a fact, this film could be best picture if it weren't for the ending.You would think that a film production company would want the rights to rewrite the endings of stories they accept to produce. In this case, if they didn't have that right, they shouldn't have made the picture, because the ending blew it for me and many others based on the comments I heard from film-goers as they were filing out the door.
There was great acting by Jude Law, whose character you fall in love with because he survives so many situations where he could have been killed, only to be killed in the end by an arrogant cocky evil youngster–an ending which also ruined the theme that the audience may gotten of the destiny of soul mates. God forbid we should get a great film with a happy ending.
There was great character acting by Renée Zellweger who stole the show and who should get the best supporting actress award for her role. Nicole Kidman did a very fine in the starring role, although the role was not as challenging as Zellweger's. Other great character acting was done by other actors in the film, including Natalie Porter and Aileen Atkins, which made the film quite interesting.
Hollywood needs to wake up. Life doesn't have to be hopeless as these films make it out to be, or else there would be no world existing after 200,000 years since the Lucifer rebellion. (See The URANTIA Book, paper 53) Somehow, we all find reasons to be optimist about the future.
~Van of Urantia*MPAA = Motion Picture Association of America
