Nice review Graeme, thanks. I agree self indulgent. It was just a bit messy, and definitely missed the mark.

I feel Adam Sandler would be pretty limited to Comedy (of course) and depressing roles. I wonder if these traits are prominent in his real life. In this film I noted his eyes were always absent of light, even when he gets told by his doctor he is cured. My feeling was that was Adam Sandler's normal state...a bit melancholic and down.

Some parts were funny, though so often the characters were berating each other. In Knocked Up this happened, though in that film, it showed the raw dysfunction of human ego, and want, in Funny people it nearly tried to normalise it. A poor message.

Dont even rent it on DVD, its utter crap. During the opening minutes I saw a bit of hope... but the plot just kept digging itself further into a mess of contrived and hard to believe situations. The writing was just terrible, they didnt put anywhere near enough effort into developing the story, plot point changes were abrupt and disjointed, the funny parts wernet that funny (I'll admit Eric Banas parts were quite funny). Very dissapointing, 3.5 stars it way to generous, I would have given it 1.5 or maaaybe 2 stars

My apologies guys. I should have written 'The only film I've seen Adam Sandler in that could not be etc'. I haven't seen 'Reign Over Me', I was having a break from reviewing when it was on, but from your feedback, I'll definitely look it up. Thanks for reading and commenting.

Reign over me was awesome

"That is still the only part Sandler has played in a film that could not be marketed as a comedy."

Um, I can't believe I'm sticking up for Adam Sandler, but what about 'Reign Over Me' that he did with Don Cheadle which was received fairly well by critics and by accounts had a decent taking at the box office as well.

Sandler was also in Reign Over Me, which definitely couldn't be marketed as a comedy, dealing with the emotional fallout from 9/11 and all.

'Reign over me' was his only non-comedy film, Punch Drunk Love was still marketed as having comedy. But I know what you mean, as he plays a different role.

"That is still the only part Sandler has played in a film that could not be marketed as a comedy"

What about Reign Over Me? That was a pretty deep and serious role for Sandler. Handled it pretty well too.

I watched this film lastnight. Wait let me rephrase that i ATTEMPTED to watch this film lastnight. It was really Lame. Walked out. If your in to that kind of thing then yeah, or films which try to make the Guniess Book of world records for "The Most Times C**K and F**K were said" go ahead but personally i wouldn't recomend it for the curious. Wait for the dvd release and hire it. =]

What about 'Reign Over Me'? I'm pretty sure that couldn't have been marketed as a comedy. I thought Adam Sandler did OK in it, but there were a few place he didn't really pull it off, like in the climatic scene where the character told his back story. Will be interesting to see how he goes in this one.