Review: Wristcutters: A Love Story
Penguin January 2nd, 2008
Rating: 1.5/4 stars
Wristcutters: A Love Story is about Zia (Patrick Fugit) who kills himself, wakes up in the afterlife, and goes searching for his girlfriend, Desiree (Leslie Bibb) when he finds out she also killed herself.
Ninja had read the comic of the story and was really impressed by the story and premise. When she told me about it, I thought it could be a great movie. Then we found out they were already working on it and were excited to see it. When we finally did, we were both disappointed.
Most of the movie is the three characters, Zia, Mikal (Shannyn Sossamon, A Knight’s Tale), and Eugene (Shea Whigham) driving around in a car. But nothing interesting happens. Although the title says it’s a love story, it’s really a road movie. As with good road movies, you need to run into interesting characters or events along the way. None of that happens.
The characters are also one dimensional. Zia’s single mindedness about finding his girlfriend, Mikal’s whining to find the people in charge, and Mikal about his broken headlight. Boring.
Maybe the message is that suicide is boring. Whatever it’s about, it’s not worth your time.
-Penguin
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