The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 5

This movie was supposedly about how we learn and aging. I learned nothing, but was 140 minutes older when it ended. Or maybe it was about love – but I found Cate Blanchett cold, Brad Pitt bloodless, chemistry lacking and their relationship an unconvincing Hollywood cliché. So what I was left with was a Forrest Gump narration and series of unbelievable anecdotes, “told” through a diary-reading format that recalled the much better The Notebook (or was it supposed to remind us of Titanic?) but in this case was wholly extraneous to the bizarre main story, which by itself was more than enough for a whole movie. If there was anything to be learned from a person’s going in reverse direction through life, our attention was diverted by such superficialities as studying the makeup on the actors and calculating what year we were in and how old, or young, the character now was.

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