"Julia" starring Tilda Swinton has an excellent first 1/4 going for it. It was on par with Leaving Las Vegas which surely it draws some parallels to until (big spoiler) the whole kidnapping fiasco. For me at this point the film dives into main-stream shtick ceasing to carry the careful nuances of a character development into unfortunately a gimmicky, sometimes, violent, but clichéd chase film. At this point the movie pretty much lost me full force. There may be an original story director Erick Zonca is following, but as the director, was hoping he elected to keep the title character more static in an introspective investigation rather than a moving and jarring rush and hullabaloo. By the end of the movie, the thing has become a mess a distant whimper of how interesting it started out as.
