Rain Man
Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 12:00PM 
Release Year: 1988
Director: Barry Levinson
Review: A coming together story of a self centered business man and his autistic brother, based on a real person named Kim Peek, a high functioning autistic savant with amazing mental abilities. The film is more about the relationship between Raymond Babbitt(Dustin Hoffman) and his brother Charlie(Tom Cruise). It is a sweet story, but altogether too formulaic. Cruise plays a very one note detestable egomaniac, who only discovers his brother after his father dies. This was my biggest problem with the movie. It was the classic case of the bad guy finding a heart. It wasn't the worst execution of it, but there was nothing new there. I would have liked more focus on Raymond since he was by far the more interesting character, but it was more focused on Cruise's character. Rain Man was charming, but there just wasn't enough happening plot wise to make this a remarkable experience.
Rating: 3/5
Reader Comments