Saturday, May 21, 2011

ZigZag (2002 R)

   The movie stars Sam Jones III (Krews), John Leguizamo (Babysitters, Moulin Rouge), Natasha Lyonne (Jelly, Fast Sofa), Wesley Snipes (Blade, Passanger 57), Oliver Platt (Flatliner, A Time to Kill), and Elizabeth Pena (Across the Moon, Adrift in Manhatten).
   The plot of the movie is Jones is an Autistic dish washer who steals money from his boss to pay rent to his abusive father, Snipes.  Leguizamo is his Big Brother who tries to form a plan to return the money while batteling cancer.
   Im rating this movie as a C- which translates to skipping the movie.  It has a lot of themes that should of made it a good movie but I cant recomend it.  A big brother with cancer a "disabled' kid with an abusive dad and a racist boss.  Jones character is spared by a cop who could of been a hard ass.
   I was not that impressed by the acting Jones did.   I dont know if it was that he did a bad job or the fact that people with Autism can be hard to understand.  The ending of the movie was good.  Some good things happend and some bad things happened.  But the ending was not strong enough for me to say it was worth the effort to stream it.

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