Thursday, May 28, 2020

Movie Review: "Leaves of Grass" 09/14/09 (Canada)

This is a movie review for "Leaves of Grass", first seen at the Toronto International Film Festival (Canada) on September 14, 2009. We watched this on November 26, 2019 via a DVD I found for cheap at Dollar General.




Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Run Time: 1 Hour and 45 Minutes

Official MPAA Rating (According to IMDB.com):
G / General Audiences
PG / Parental Guidance Suggested
PG-13 / Parents Strongly Cautioned
R / Restricted
X
Not Rated



Trailer







Notable Cast

Edward Norton ... Bill Kincaid / Brady Kincaid
Tim Blake Nelson ... Bolger
Melanie Lynskey ... Colleen
Josh Pais ... Ken Feinman




Plot


An Ivy League professor named Bill Kincaid, in trouble for some female student supposedly getting fresh with him, hears that his twin brother Brady Kincaid has been killed. He decides, with much regret, to go down to small-town Oklahoma to pay his regards. One problem: his brother isn't dead. No, his brother wants to pull a twin stunt so that Brady can have an alibi if something goes wrong with a marijuana business deal... How will this work out? Will they be able to pull off this stunt or will things go wrong...?




Rating Criteria
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little.
3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more.
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.


2/5 - *SPOILERS*


This marijuana growing set up is the best thing of this whole movie. Talk about smarts, though it got him in trouble..





Honestly, this movie was pathetic, even for a crime movie. It kept the attention but it was very lack luster.  I won't go into details but the movie trudged along and kept exploring the dark side of the drug world. What could go wrong did go wrong. A dude was murdered because he wanted his money that he had loaned to Brady (the OK brother, not the professor). They tried to pin it on the neo-nazis but messed up the swastika sign... Just was not a good movie.


It was ironic that Bill got shot by a crossbow after Brady was "killed by a crossbow", which brought Bill down to the area in the first place.

There was so much not finished in the end. Like what happened to Bill's job on the east coast and the issue with the co ed? Why the hell did Ken the orthodontist go ape shit and try to bring Bill and Brady in for the death of Pug? What happened to Ken's family, considering Ken died?


This is a movie to pass on, in my personal opinion. I am glad I didn't spend premium dollars on this DVD or I would have been much more disappointed. [The more I thought about this movie during the review, the lower the rating went. I started at 3/5 right after we watched it, down to 2.5 and stopping at 2/5.]


That's my movie review. Thanks for reading. More reviews to come eventually.




~ Gracie Mae DeLunac

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