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Heaven (2002)

Rate: 3
Viewed: 11/17

11/17: Prepare yourself for a massive suspension of disbelief when you pop Heaven into the DVD player.

Filled with overdramatic performances, it's one of the most ludicrous movies I've seen in a long time. Does anyone realize Cate Blanchett's character is a terrorist, having killed four innocent people?

I hate Giovanni Ribisi so much that I want to punch him just to wipe the smirk off his face. The stupidest mistake of the film is allowing him to have tons of screen time. I was honestly shocked that Ribisi could speak Italian.

I know when I'm being manipulated. Just because Heaven is a foreign film doesn't mean it can get away with actions that are incomprehensibly and morally wrong. It has all kinds of manipulation at play, forcing me to be pissed off at myself for picking up the film in the first place.

Thankfully, because Krzysztof Kieślowski (good luck if you can say his name perfectly ten times in a row within fifteen seconds) of Trois couleurs fame was planning a trilogy (Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory), he died before he could complete the project. It doesn't matter anyway because nobody saw the first one, having tanked at the box office.

All in all, Heaven is an example of why I hate European movies in general.

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