5 stars for at least trying to show the disconnect that technology is causing in our society today. That is so true and I appreciated the effort even as I did not appreciate how it was executed, overall. Some of the acting was good, some of it pretty bad, which is just as the movie-making was. A good scene taken too long eventually became boring and lost its effect, and a bad scene taken too long was agonizing, as in the group hug at the end. Ugh. Many scenes went on so long they became beyond tedious, and toward aggravating to me. The film also pounded at every heart string and most scenes led to melodrama before they ended. That effect appeared amateurish but was no doubt purposeful, as maudlin sells a lot of tickets to those viewers wanting to bathe in pathos. A crisper and tighter story on the same serious subjects would have been so superior, as with the films Crash, Traffic and 21 Grams, but the writer and director here seemed to want to pound it into our soft American hearts(brains too?)to the point where we would finally say, "Oh, now I get it, we are becoming disconnected!".
I got it early on, and a lot of it I wish I didn't.
I got it early on, and a lot of it I wish I didn't.