Screening Log

This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.

July 2006 activity

Total Log Entries: 71

Total Comments: 23

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Click / USA / 2006

Aside from the awful writing, Click suffers from a severe identity crisis. What begins like a standard Adam Sandler flick, naughty jokes and all, transforms halfway through into a humorless genre hybrid that’s more awkward than appealing. The supporting actors—Christopher Walken, James Earl Jones, Henry Winkler—are given rapid and undeveloped characters that cry out for one decent line. I even weep for David Hasselhoff, whose turn as the self-obsessed CEO really doesn’t add to his career. (Then again, what could?) And the finale is predictably evasive, resolving the character’s problem while leaving subplots irksomely in doubt.

I feel compelled to mention two scenes late in the film, in which Sandler’s character is an unfeeling and gray-haired executive, because they’re surprisingly well-acted and absolutely beautiful. They’re also completely incongruous, like a bottle of wine in a vending machine. I personally would rather see a Sandler film built around those few minutes, as they’re also the only moments when I felt my time wasn’t being wasted.

by Adam Balz | Source: 35MM Print
03 Jul 2006 5:57 PM | Submit Comment

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