First off, after one hour, I realised I had yet to go for another jour.
As it happens, the second hour was quite enjoyable.
For the positive side of the movie, the relationship of the granddaughter, and what young kids can bring to old people is great. But it is overdone, emotionally. No kid behaves like this, it's a demonstration of how to.
The relationship of the the old man's son with his wife, and the way she acts against his grandfather, so cliched, it's overdone.
Most scenes of his Alzheimers progression is overdone, too, mostly to give the movie its funny side. I can live with that, but yet no one could accept a situation where an old man could kill people with a gun or by fire. Totally non-realistic.
Nick Nolte as everybody else did a good job, granddaughter Sophie Lane, was quite convincing in an exaggerated role.
Finally, if you take Alzheimer seriously, this maybe a bad movie for you. If however you look at it as a fable, with a moral aspect on how deal with it, it could be great.
I manage to look this movie of 2 hours without interruption, probably because I could identify myself with the situations, so the movie can't be that bad.
However the movie has an accusing way of telling you how to behave, and its moral purpose is quite disturbing. But that is quite German...
For the positive side of the movie, the relationship of the granddaughter, and what young kids can bring to old people is great. But it is overdone, emotionally. No kid behaves like this, it's a demonstration of how to.
The relationship of the the old man's son with his wife, and the way she acts against his grandfather, so cliched, it's overdone.
Most scenes of his Alzheimers progression is overdone, too, mostly to give the movie its funny side. I can live with that, but yet no one could accept a situation where an old man could kill people with a gun or by fire. Totally non-realistic.
Nick Nolte as everybody else did a good job, granddaughter Sophie Lane, was quite convincing in an exaggerated role.
Finally, if you take Alzheimer seriously, this maybe a bad movie for you. If however you look at it as a fable, with a moral aspect on how deal with it, it could be great.
I manage to look this movie of 2 hours without interruption, probably because I could identify myself with the situations, so the movie can't be that bad.
However the movie has an accusing way of telling you how to behave, and its moral purpose is quite disturbing. But that is quite German...