The movie takes itself way too seriously, and it doesn’t add up to much, but, nevertheless, it’s borderline entertaining.
The Air I Breathe (2007)
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Forest Whitaker, Brendan Fraser, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Andy Garcia
Screenwriter: Jieho Lee, Bob DeRosa
Producer: Paul Schiff, Emilio Diez Barroso, Darlene Caamano Loquet, Ian Duncan
Composer: Marcelo Zavros
DVD Info
Release:
Mar 5, 2010
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Widescreen 2.40
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English
- Dolby Digital 2.0 - English
- Subtitles - English (SDH), Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentary - 1. Jieho Lee - Director / Co - Writer
- 2. Bob Derosa - Co - Writer
- 3. Walt Llyod - Director of Photography
- 4. Robert Hoffman - Editor
- Featurettes - Behind-the-Scence Featurette
- Trailers - Theatrical Trailer
Reviews
Your appreciation of this circular plotting will have a great deal to do with how tongue-in-cheek you believe the film is
A perfectly awful example of a certain breed of American indie film that brings together a lot of familiar faces for an ensemble drama about...nothing.
None of the four morality plays ... are necessarily original in plot, nor is the film itself particularly innovative in its structure ... it just seems flat and useless.
Each story has its moments, but Air lacks an overarching vision.
Aside from demonstrating how liberation and change can occur even at the most dire turn of events, it's not exactly clear exactly what his overly ambitious drama is trying to say.
Brendan Fraser is Pleasure, Sarah Michelle Gellar is Sorrow, Kevin Bacon is Love, Forest Whitaker is Happiness, and the director is Pretension.
I can't fault any of the actors for anything other than bad judgment. Their performances are fine, but a good fortune cookie might have told them to stay away from this.
A stew of cheap irony, ponderous but meaningless allegory, violence and pretension, the movie is all borrowed style and calculated pandering. It does, however, get more ludicrous by the minute. So in that sense, it's good for an occasional laugh.
Four unappealing mini-dramas about happiness, pleasure, sorrow, and love.
Ah, January, hallowed dustbin for projects half-baked, too cooked, or both, as in the case of this overstuffed actioner.
With any luck, The Air I Breathe should be the last gasp of the faux-Altmanesque school of serendipitous storytelling.
It’s particularly frustrating to watch Whittaker, the strongest thespian of the bunch, desperately mine for gold in a narrative landslide.
[Jieho] doesn't know what to do with actors, however, and the film's impressive ensemble is wasted.
Ignore all of that foolishness and watch the collision of emotions The Air I Breathe provides -- it is enough all by itself to leave you breathless.
For rock-bottom nasty, with no social relevance, there is The Air I Breathe, a load of amateurish bilge so silly I thought I was watching a screening at Comedy Central.
aforitis dithenias ki ysterikis fotoskiasis spondyloto drama gia ti zoi, to sympan, kai ola ayta, opoy tesseris istories periplekontai me tin haraktiristiki, anamenomena problepsimi apithanotita toy eidoys, gia na ftiaksoyn me to zori, tin hrysi pleksoyda
A breathtakingly bad Altman rip-off that seems like a wholly unintentional parody of multi-narrative films.
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