The Words

The Words

Rating 3 out of 10

This was not really a movie I was interested in seeing.  Movie night with my movie buddy Ted and the wives and for some reason we couldn't talk them into seeing Expendables.  I think in the end they wished we had seen Stalone and guys.

This movie is about a mostly failed writer at the end of his rope that lucks upon a book of a lifetime.  He is not sure who wrote it but he knows it's not him.  He releases the book as his own and it becomes a smash hit.  When an old man confronts him as the true author he has to decide what he is to do.  We know all this from the trailer.  What we learn in two minutes in the trailer you have to sit for more than an hour in the theater to see.  The story plays out verrrrrry slowly.  We know he didn't write the book now get to it!

The acting is as good as you can expect with pretty boy Bradley Cooper playing the depressed writer.  The lovely Zoe Saldana plays his wife.  To me she just didn't fit the movie.  Don't know why.  Old timer Jeremy Irons is the old guy who has enough wrinkles you wonder how he gets around.

The story mostly moves way too slow.  Too long to get to the point.  Throw in one of those art house movie endings that I hate so much and you get a not so fun movie watching experience.  Well atleast the dinner and company was good.