Reign Over Me - Review

Reign Over Me Movie ReviewI’ve come to realize that if Don Cheadle is a key character, I’m going to enjoy the movie. Whether that’s because he’s good, or he’s good and he chooses good movies, I can’t say… but I haven’t been disappointed in any of his work since seeing Hotel Rwanda.

The plot of this ‘Reign Over Me‘ is simple, an old friend of Alan Johnson (played by Cheadle) suffers unimaginable loss, and through the course of his suffering he truly loses himself. Johnson’s chance encounter with Charlie Fineman (played by Adam Sandler) not only offers an opportunity for Fineman to be saved but also for Johnson, who has been silently suffering for years of his own demise.

The supporting cast of Jada Pinkett Smith, Liv Tyler and Donald Sutherland, to name a few, were excellent. Pinkett -Smith plays Johnson’s smothering wife, Tyler a psychiatrist in Johnson’s office building, and Sutherland a criminal court judge… who oddly reminded me of God in his role.

I was anticipating a complete downer with this movie, and with Sandler in serious roles it definitely had that potential. However, this movie was well done with the expected sadness, doom and gloom, and with some funny flavouring thrown in too.

I happily give this movie 6.5 ‘veneers’ out of 10.

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4 Responses to “Reign Over Me - Review”

  1. SizzlingPopcorn on April 28th, 2008 5:14 pm

    Reign Over Me and Hotel Rwanda are both good movies. Another movie I really liked that had Don Cheadle was Crash, which won several Academy Awards.

  2. Reel Ninja on April 28th, 2008 6:47 pm

    Yeah, we loved Crash :)

  3. Ria on May 1st, 2008 12:21 am

    Hey, I just saw that movie today, and I really liked it! Don Cheadle is really awesome, one hell of an actor!

  4. Reel Ninja on May 1st, 2008 9:16 am

    Thanks for your comment Ria.

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