The first half-hour of this film is great - a touching love story laced with beautiful scenery and interesting color schemes. Unfortunately, things go downhill fast from there. Kal Penn, who plays the son, is playing against type here (usually he's a stoner comedy lynchpin), and fails miserably. He is rarely believable. The script is hackneyed at best. It feels like the book adaption that it is, desperately cramming in source material whether it fits or not. Time lapses in the storytelling are jarring and ineffective. If your jaw is not hanging loose in disbelief at the end of this mangled tale, then you may not be a discerning, critical human being.
Written 5/7/09
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