Review

The age old saying that youth is wasted on the young is taken to new levels with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It’s the story of a man who ages backwards and who always seems out of place because of it.

The concept is intriguing and unique to say the least. Brad Pitt claims the lead role and does so effortlessly. In fact it’s so effortless I can’t seem to see what was so special about his performance, something for which he received an Academy Award Nomination. Cate Blanchett does a fairly good job as his leading lady but their relationship throughout the film comes off as irritating more than anything else.

In fact the creators of Benjamin Button have gotten so caught up in stunning backdrops of the different time periods and the amazing effects that turned Brad Pitt into a wrinkly old man that they’ve failed to get the audience’s attention on the story. The epic film is a full 166 minutes long, that’s two and a half hours of film which will drag in many places.

It’s not that the film was horrible but it just didn’t have that something that makes you sit up and pay attention. If anything it was a pleasant journey through the last eighty years of American History and little more.