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Lebell · 01-08-2004, 04:33 PM

21 Grams - the weight the human body loses the moment you die.

Went to see this last night and I still don't know what to think.

Do I like it or not?

It's the story of three people who have nothing in common, but who's lives become intertwined more deeply than the viewer could imagine. A reformed con turned Bible thumper makes a bad decision and kills Watts' husband and two girls in a hit and run accident. Penn, who is waiting for a heart transplant, gets the husband's heart and is driven to find the widow. Both of them in turn are driven to find the convict and exact revenge.

In the end, all three find redemption.

Naomi Watts and Shawn Penn turn in great performances, (perhaps the best role I've seen him in), and the movie is well made and but the editing kept me on the edge of my seat and not necessarily in a good way. The problem; it was not a linear story. The director jumped around his time line, showing Watts and Penn having sex, then before they meet, then later, etc.

But all things considered, it is worth seeing.

21 Grams
Starring Shawn Penn and Naomi Watts

3 of 5 stars

01-08-2004, 04:33 PM	#1 (permalink)
Lebell Cracking the Whip Location: Sexymama's arms...	21 Grams - Review 21 Grams - the weight the human body loses the moment you die. Went to see this last night and I still don't know what to think. Do I like it or not? It's the story of three people who have nothing in common, but who's lives become intertwined more deeply than the viewer could imagine. A reformed con turned Bible thumper makes a bad decision and kills Watts' husband and two girls in a hit and run accident. Penn, who is waiting for a heart transplant, gets the husband's heart and is driven to find the widow. Both of them in turn are driven to find the convict and exact revenge. In the end, all three find redemption. Naomi Watts and Shawn Penn turn in great performances, (perhaps the best role I've seen him in), and the movie is well made and but the editing kept me on the edge of my seat and not necessarily in a good way. The problem; it was not a linear story. The director jumped around his time line, showing Watts and Penn having sex, then before they meet, then later, etc. But all things considered, it is worth seeing. 21 Grams Starring Shawn Penn and Naomi Watts 3 of 5 stars __________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis The ONLY sponsors we have are YOU! Please Donate!